When I was 13, I got my first guitar, and I could sort of play Ted Nugent songs, but I couldn't play the solos. But I could play along with entire Ramones songs.

You don't love me. If you really knew me, you wouldn't love me. You love who you think I am. And don't pretend that you know me. Because I don't even know myself.

I know I was born and I know that I'll die... The in between is mine. I Am Mine

It's saying, just stop, and be together. Don't talk now, just breathe and feel each other's presence.

Music's at its best when it has a purpose.

I knew all the rules but the rules did not know me.

The smallest oceans still make big big waves.

Music saved me; I mean, my upbringing was like a hurricane, and music was the tree I held onto.

It's a mystery to me; We have a greed, with which we have agreed. You think you have to want more than you need. Until you have it all, you won't be free.

The love received is the love that is saved.

I've got my indignation but I'm pure in all my thoughts.

When a strong woman recklessly throws away her strength she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away.

There is no joy greater than the triumph of living.

You have to bind the devil and command him to set these people free.

Everything's coming up roses - for me.

I will tell you King's First Law of Recognition: You never get it when you want it, and then when it comes, you get too much.

Simplicity is cosmic, because it places our life on the same scale as all life, of innocent Nature herself, who is all-powerful.

traditions that have lost their meaning are the hardest of all to destroy.

A lot of trouble about prayer would disappear if only we realized - really realized - that we go to pray not because we love prayer, but because we love God.

I love to mix colors. For me, I don't have a rule, like "you can't wear silver and gold." You can mix it.

There is nothing like a start, and being born, however pessimistic one may become in later years, is undeniably a start.