The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids.

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.

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

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.

Love is a natural instinct that grows if it is nurtured. It evolves itself but withers if it is not watered with affection, care, respect and kindness.

Men from children nothing differ.

As a powerful creator, your potential success only awaits the genesis of thought.

It's not something you can prove....I know you hate to hear this, but you either have it, or you don't.

Factory farming is the attitude that commodifies sentient life.

Man is more social within than without.

For me optimism is two lovers walking into the sunset arm in arm. Or maybe into the sunrise - whatever appeals to you.

If you think everything you've done is great, you're probably dumb.

The historian's one task is to tell the thing as it happened.

We stand together as we did two centuries ago, One people under God determined that our future shall be worthy of our past.