When I was a kid growing up in the '60s, music was an outlet for enlightenment, frustration, rebellion. It was more about individualism. Today it's just like a big business.

For me, punk is about real feelings. It's not about, 'Yeah, I am a punk and I'm angry.' That's a lot of crap. It's about loving the things that really matter: passion, heart and soul.

Life to me is an adventure and you've got to experience everything.

Play before you get good, because by the time you get good, you're too old to play

What they teach you in school doesn't prepare you for life. Textbooks don't compare to living in the real world. Rock and roll teaches you how to live.

To me, punk is about being an individual and going against the grain and standing up and saying 'This is who I am'.

I enjoyed my life when I had nothing... and kinda like the idea of just being happy with me.

If your not in it you're out of it.

Lack of skill dictates economy of style.

When a band like Blondie re-forms, you wish them the best.

All punk is is attitude. That's what makes it. The attitude.

Leadership. No rules, no laws, no books, no titles, just influence.

Be firm with your decisions.

You connect yourself to the viewer by by sharing something that is inside of you that connects with something inside of him. All you have as your guide is that you know what moves you.

I hate To tell again a tale once fully told.

I just think we should look at this as a chess match," he said, "between the world's greatest chess player and Garry Kasparov.

Everything that we've ever done has led up to this moment, so I presume there's a certain intricacy in that.

... people get confidential at midnight.

In that moment of salvation, of belief, they are opening their lives to the person of Jesus.

No one knows enough to worry.

So a voice in the mountain is enough to let loose an avalanche. A word too much may be followed by a caving in. If the word had not been spoken, it would not have happened.