We're all going to have to learn to live together and develop a greater tolerance and get rid off whatever our fathers gave us in the way of hatred between nations.

Punk rock isn't something you grow out of Punk rock is an attitude, and the essence of that attitude is 'give us some truth'

Everyone has got to realise you can't hold onto the past if you want any future. Each second should lead to the next one.

I don't have any other message than don't forget you are alive

When I started, they told me I only needed 3 chords and the truth... It turned out I could manage with 2 and some vague ideas.

The way you get a better world is, you don't put up with substandard anything.

In fact, punk rock means exemplary manners to your fellow human beings.

Don't write slogans, write truths.

The future is unwritten.

When you blame yourself, you learn from it. If you blame someone else, you don't learn nothing, cause hey, it's not your fault, it's his fault, over there.

I'm far more dangerous now, because I don't care at all.

I felt this awful obligation to be charming or at least have something to say, and the pressure of having to be charming (or merely verbal) incapacitates me.

A daily practice of how you shall live in heaven, here on earth, is a good qualification plan to get to heaven

Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.

Independence means.. enjoying freedom and empowering others too to let them do so.

It's not because I don't want to hurt Delia's feelings. It's because when she is bruised, I'm the one who aches.

I am tortured when I am away from my family, from my children. I am horribly guilt-ridden.

Fight tautness whenever it occurs; strive for relaxed muscles throughout.

My first Broadway show was with Elizabeth Taylor and Maureen Stapleton. Maureen Stapleton, a legend in the theatre; Elizabeth Taylor, a legend, period.

But I feel convinced, and I venture even to prophesy in this regard, that the time will come when there will also be a minister of peace in the cabinet, seated beside the ministers of war.

Pursue success, long after any sane person would have given up.