To me, music is no joke and it's not for sale.

An unlocked door means that, occasionally, you might get a devil come in, but a locked door means you have thousands of angels just walk by.

If You Want To Rebel Against Society, Don’t Dull The Blade

I just have work to do; I just do it.

It's so interesting that humanity has to be defined by emotional strife or something. I don't buy into that.

I never imagine myself as anything. I've never had a goal or any future vision at all. I just do what's in front of me.

The American underground punk scene, though, is a story worth remembering.

I'm always happy when I hear about people selling records or selling books or selling movies. It makes me proud of them.

Major labels didn't start showing up really until they smelled money, and that's all they're ever going to be attracted to is money-that's the business they're in- making money.

I'd much rather talk to a 30-year old that survived rough times in their lives [practicing Straight Edge] rather than someone that was harmed by a culture of violence.

I'm not a religious person, and I'm not too interested in being a part of a religion, but I do like having some sort of communal gathering, and having some sense of peoples.

He alone is a man who keeps his word:Not that he has one thing in the heart, and another on the tongue.

Sooner or later,reality does occor and when it does, all the lies show up, like blood on snow.

I appreciate America for all the opportunities it's afforded me.

I really like doing the laundry, because I succeed at it. But I loathe putting it away. It is already clean.

Whatever the medium, if you have great taste and not very much skill, you can still make something great.

Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

The love of Christ fills our hearts and makes us always able to forgive!

There are singers that I have enjoyed, from Nina Simone and Ray Charles onward. But the music that made music the number one thing for me as a youth was jazz.

Selfishness is the controlling force of sinful living. It is this motive which pulsates through the natural mind, emotions and will - self-pleasing, self-serving, living for self.

The march to our duty here, not merely to ourselves, but to our surroundings, must proceed. God wills it.