There are bands now, and for years, that called themselves emo. I never followed that stuff.

Believe in all the good things you keep inside There is no freedom in life without freedom of mind.

I don't listen to my own stuff unless I've been drinking a lot.

I feel like everybody knows the world isn't the happiest, most peaceful place. And though everybody has an idea of what's wrong, we're not changing it for the better.

I have an aversion to conformity.

Trying to be creative, yet having to deal with the day to day - I mean, there is a lot of stuff to deal with. Like sitting at the computer and sending emails.

Even when I am forced to conform - we all are on many levels - that line is definitive. It says exactly what it means: Be an individual, you know? Be yourself.

Almost everything I do, especially later on, is really very scripted. And I do it over and over again until it's perfect.

I don't have a label, I don't have a manager, I'm doing everything myself.

One square yard of drag will slow a falling body almost twenty percent.

This is my mind, i own it!

There is no condition so severe that you cannot reverse it by choosing different thoughts.

If you were mean to your parents, they'd give you a good belt in the gob and send you flying across the room.

I'm making some of the greatest art being made now. It'll take the art world ten years to get around to it.

Leave the dishes unwashed and the demands on your time unanswered. Be ruthless and refuse to do what people ask of you.

"World War III, was the Cold War, and the U.S. won it".

Sometimes you have to be forced away from your work to realize you’ve made too much of it, to remember it doesn’t define you.

I think photojournalism is documentary photography with a purpose.