School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect, so why practice?

There's nothing wrong with being a loser, it just depends on how good you are at it.

Music to me is the air I breathe it's the blood that pumps through my veins that keeps me alive

A man once asked me, what's punk? I kicked over a trash can and said that's punk. He kicked over a trash can and then asked me again, Is that punk? I replied no. That's just trendy.

You can't change the wind but you can set your sails.

Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything.

To do something that you feel in your heart that's great, you need to make a lot of mistakes. Anything that's successful is a series of mistakes.

‎The day you become old is the day you're not looking for new experiences anymore.

It's better to regret something you have done than to regret something you haven't done.

Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality.

Punk will never be dead to me. It's my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me.

I love the polite drivers in La Jolla. At an intersection . . . most expensive car goes first.

We need above all to learn again to believe in the possibility of nobility of spirit in ourselves.

I venture that those of us who are most serene when faced with the possibility of nothingness are the ones who've reached furthest to the downward and upward of their beings.

The decisions I made are done. And history will judge whether or not they were correct. There's no such thing as accurate short-term history.

I think we musicians are emissaries. Every time we go before the public, we're there to make converts.

I think The Exorcist is the best American horror movie ever made. Friedkin was at the top of his game.

Women especially as to be talked to as below men, and above children.

There is a dysfunctional strangeness to Los Angeles that doesn't exist in any other western city. The roads are crumbling, no-one knows what they're doing, the city government barely works.

The next message you need is always right where you are.

I feel like today we always glorify the young, just-plucked-from-college writer. But it's much harder to start writing later, in middle age, struggling on a book around a full-time job and family.