Play before you get good, because by the time you get good, you're too old to play

For me, punk is about real feelings. It's not about, 'Yeah, I am a punk and I'm angry.' That's a lot of crap. It's about loving the things that really matter: passion, heart and soul.

Life to me is an adventure and you've got to experience everything.

What they teach you in school doesn't prepare you for life. Textbooks don't compare to living in the real world. Rock and roll teaches you how to live.

To me, punk is about being an individual and going against the grain and standing up and saying 'This is who I am'.

I enjoyed my life when I had nothing... and kinda like the idea of just being happy with me.

If your not in it you're out of it.

When I was a kid growing up in the '60s, music was an outlet for enlightenment, frustration, rebellion. It was more about individualism. Today it's just like a big business.

Lack of skill dictates economy of style.

When a band like Blondie re-forms, you wish them the best.

All punk is is attitude. That's what makes it. The attitude.

Hope is the boat we ride to reach the shore of our desires.

Do you suffer fromcallous-narrow-minded biases?I’m humanely secondhand embarrassed for you.

She learned early on, in her adopted country, that race was an easy excuse to stop awkward explanations. People hesitated to probe into such a sensitive matter.

Always do things the least interesting way, the most blunt way, and you make a better movie. This is my experience.

I thought I might cry, the way you do when someone gives you some kindness when you most need it but when it seems the most surprising thing.

Only a jackass ever talks over his affairs with a woman, whether she be his sweetheart, wife, or sister, or mother.

I look at Google and think they have a strong academic culture. Elegant solutions to complex problems.

Mistakes, mistakes, it's all I seem capable of at times.

Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget--lest we forget!

My mother raised me in the church. I was not allowed to stay home on Sunday; there was no option. I sang in the choir all the way up until I went to college.