They wouldn't play my records on American radio because I had spiky hair. They said, 'Punk rock doesn't sell advertising, it won't make any money.'

If your world doesn't allow you to dream, move to one where you can.

It doesn't matter about money; having it, not having it. Or having clothes, or not having them. You're still left alone with yourself in the end.

I love it when someone insults me. That means that I don't have to be nice anymore.

The biggest misconception people have about me is that I'm stupid.

Rock isn't art, it's the way ordinary people talk.

I don't think punk ever really dies, because punk rock attitude can never die.

Let's sink another drink, cause it will give me time to think.

I don't care what stage or what reason, as long as we're playing.

Part of the punk attitude was that you should project your music through your whole body... show your personality as much as possible.

I rocked the cradle of love.

We tend to see what we are looking for.

The first duty of a revolutionist is to get away with it. The second duty is to eat breakfast. I ain't going.

Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.

Rich people have the potential to reach a point where they see money as the source of their safety and security.

Why is it that fools always have the instinct to hunt out the unpleasant secrets of life, and the hardiness to mention them?

It is like visiting one's funeral, like visiting loss in its purest and most monumental form, this wild darkness, which is not only unknown but which one cannot enter as oneself.

We no longer have the pact from 1997; it was radically amended in 2005 and the Commission is applying this Stability Pact with wisdom and rationality.

I tried to write with someone else once before, but it was not successful.

The bravest people are the ones who don’t mind looking like cowards.

What is this "heart"? If I tear open that chest of yours, will I see it there? If I smash open that skull of yours, will I see it there?