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.

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".

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

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

I want the wonder back again, or I shall die.

They did not know her-gods are hard for mortals to recognize.

It's never hard to sing the blues. Everyone in the world has the blues . . .

I avoid confrontation. When I'm on set I never snap at anyone. I don't have a temper.

My mom was in a punk rock band called The Trash Women and they toured and all of that. She had me when she was 17.

Celebrate my death for the good times I've had, For the work that I've done and the friends that I've made. Celebrate my death, of whom it could be said, "She was a working class woman, and a red."

Work is fundamental to the dignity of the person. Work, to use an image, 'anoints' with dignity, fills us with dignity, makes us similar to God who has worked and still works, who always acts.

If the mind is intensely eager, everything can be accomplished—mountains can be crumbled into atoms.

Democrats consider the people as the safest depository of power in the last resort; they cherish them, therefore, and wish to leave in them all the powers to the exercise of which they are competent.

I've always been a huge reggae fan.