We're making music to help people think and bring them together, that's our role; we're not siding with anybody

Punk gave me the strength to think, "Yeah, you can stand up and be counted, and do what you want in life, and not be hoodwinked by it all," in a simple, very general sweeping way.

When you're writing you're affected by everything that's going on around you.

I smoked 20 cigarettes to get that sound because I'd read that John Lennon smoked a load of cigarettes on "Twist and Shout".

When I've met people that work in any walk of life they say, "If it wasn't for punk I wouldn't be doing it this way." I think spiritually, it did change the world a lot.

It is kind of weird being the last gang in town.

Love is one of our most profound emotions and enduring qualities for living a life that matters.

Sometimes doesn't mean behaving nice, means you will got the same answer, it never means that everything done in positive = returns positive.... sometimes comes and negative.

Lincoln loved other people's jokes as much as his own.

It was an effort to include intelligent design and treat it as science, disparaging evolution along the way. That will not stand.

There was no one in particular I really tried to copy.

You have to make your choice and live with your choice.

The impression of Pakistan is that people are corrupt. I don't think they are as corrupt as they are made out to be. I can look you in the eye and tell you I've never bribed anybody.

The secret of success is to find a need and fill it, to find a hurt and heal it, to find somebody with a problem and offer to help solve it.

Jekyll had more than a father's interest; Hyde had more than a son's indifference.

Lord, baseball is a worrying thing.