Only an incompetent mind is content to express itself incompetently.

No one can love you until you love yourself, and you cannot love anyone else, until you love yourself.

A person who has never owned a dog has missed a wonderful part of life.

I listened a little to punk when I was younger, but it was straight edge punk. It was nothing like what is going on now, like poppy punk.

The cardinal rule for hosting the Miss USA and Miss Universe beauty pageants is to expect the unexpected.

Believe me, when I say; There are no two powers That command the soul. One is God The other is the tide. -Anon From the novel Abarat

If the Prodigal Son's a parable, and if Adam and Eve are metaphors, then maybe God is just figure of speech.

The toilets at a local police station have been stolen. Police say they have nothing to go on.

A lot of people think that punk rock musicians don't know what they're doing.

My mom passed away a day before high school started, and her dream was for me to be a full rock and roll guy, and play drums in a band.

And I was in another band called Flash In The Pan, which was soca, Latin music, down in Laguna Beach.

I'd like to think...that people in pubs would talk about my poems

There were times in 'Adaptation' during the editing where I really thought, 'Okay, well, this was a noble failure. I tried to do something good, but this is not going to work.'

We played every night. Sometimes we'd stay overnight after a game, but we'd usually drive on to our next destination.

There's tremendous spirit about make America great again. I mean that's the whole thing. We're going to make America great again.

As you get older the odds are against you that you are still going to be on the planet.

Art is no longer anything more than a kind of meta-language for banality.

I never want to be pretentious.

As information becomes our environment, it becomes mandatory to program the environment itself as a work of art.

The organization of American society is an interlocking system of semi-monopolies notoriously venal, an electorate notoriously unenlightened, misled by mass media notoriously phony.

Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.