My songs have always been frustrating themes, relationships that I've had. And now that I'm in love, I expect it to be really happy, or at least there won't be half as much anger as there was.

dreaming of the person you want to be is wasting the person you already are.

I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

Life is a waste of time and time is a waste of life, so let's all get wasted and have the time of our lives.

I hate myself, and I want to die

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.

If you're really a mean person you're going to come back as a fly and eat poop.

Just because it's all you want, doesn't mean it's all you need.

The worst crime is faking it.

My heart is broke, but I have some glue, help me inhale and mend it with you.

Life versus Death becomes, as Montaigne pointed out, Old Age versus Death.

It was like watching a community you thought you knew reveal itself as something else.

My ideal journey: set out early and never arrive.

You have two choices: To live an unconscious life, or to be conscious of your magnificence...

It is a trick among the dishonest to offer sacrifices that are not needed or not possible to avoid making those that are required.

If football wasn't a part of my life, there were three things that could have happened, and they were all bad. I would have likely been selling drugs, in jail or dead.

If they gave a Nobel Peace Prize for work against big tobacco, not just in the industry, but also with the California tax initiative, he really deserves one.

I still have not given up the idea of becoming a journalist, but at 17 I decided to follow my heart and stay in Los Angeles with my girlfriend as opposed to going to Johns Hopkins.

Just as any revolution eats its children, unchecked market fundamentalism can devour the social capital essential for the long-term dynamism of capitalism itself.

I have a problem with homosexual acts.