Record labels have enjoyed a 100-year monopoly of selling plastic and now they're up against a different format.

An unlocked door means that, occasionally, you might get a devil come in, but a locked door means you have thousands of angels just walk by.

If You Want To Rebel Against Society, Don’t Dull The Blade

I just have work to do; I just do it.

It's so interesting that humanity has to be defined by emotional strife or something. I don't buy into that.

I never imagine myself as anything. I've never had a goal or any future vision at all. I just do what's in front of me.

The American underground punk scene, though, is a story worth remembering.

I'm always happy when I hear about people selling records or selling books or selling movies. It makes me proud of them.

To me, music is no joke and it's not for sale.

Major labels didn't start showing up really until they smelled money, and that's all they're ever going to be attracted to is money-that's the business they're in- making money.

I'd much rather talk to a 30-year old that survived rough times in their lives [practicing Straight Edge] rather than someone that was harmed by a culture of violence.

Everybody told me this 'girl on the piano' thing was never going to work.

Let us live this day in that light, that life, and that peace, so that we may gain the victory over those things that press us down.

True friends... face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals.

The past is only so heroic as we see it. It is the canvas on which our idea of heroism is painted, and so, in one sense, the dim prospectus of our future field.

My wife is the kind of girl who will not go anywhere without her mother, and her mother will go anywhere.

The destinies of men are woven one with the other, and you can turn aside from them no more than you can turn aside from your own.

Never miss an opportunity to shut up.

The only kind of film I want to write is a story where I can keep on seeing the stories play out. I'm a huge television fan, and I'm a huge continuing storyline fan.

Never work with animals or children.