To me, John Lennon and Elvis Presley were punks, because they made music that evoked those emotions in people.

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.

Human reason can excuse any evil.

Wisdom dwells in the heart of God.

To enter the Buddha Way is to stop discriminating between good and evil and to cast aside the mind that says this is good and that is bad.

You don't have to watch 'Gossip Girl' to have an attitude.

I've always recognised that I have influence, whether I like it or not, and that I can use it to do something good.

The thing is, if you control the Senate meetings, you control the gavel. And the gavel is a very important instrument... an instrument of power. An instrument that establishes the agenda.

The act of sport remains a human act, unrelated to gender.

You have to be an outsider to write.

American Journalism is dead… They have behaved like hockey goalies in front of Barack Obama’s net.

Listen, in England people are already writing their memoirs at the age of 23.