The Eagles and the Captain and Tennille ruled the airwaves, and we were the answer to it.

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.

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

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.

For the weakest has but to try his strength to find it, and then he shall be strong.

Imaginative mind is the seed of every dream and every vision. It always starts from our minds before the manifestation.

I Can Be Alone and it's Okay.

Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.

Our system here of creating value for others and having people do the right thing, exchange information, and so on only works if people have the right values.

I made myself into an envelope into which I could thrust my work deep, lick the flap, seal it from everybody.

I like how pure the expression is in music. You can go straight to the heart of an audience rather than through their brain.

The city of Pittsburgh gleaming suddenly before her . . . so startling in its vastness and its beauty that she had gasped and slowed, afraid of losing control of the car

People in Oklahoma don't wake up every morning wondering what the government is going to do for them.

God hasn't given up on you. He can still do great things for you, in you, and through you. God is ready and waiting and able. What about you, and me?