When I was a teenager, I learned that in order to play guitar like Johnny Ramone, it takes a huge amount of physical effort.

As I get older, I realize a lot of the things I could have done - things that I didn't think were so great at the time - actually would have been enjoyable.

Skepticism is only a time-based reality, and as an ultimate reality, it's always wrong, because everything always happens.

Musically, I just think in terms of what's next. There's a lot of things I've always dreamed of doing, and I hope I get to them before I get too deaf.

You wind up listening to one song that you really like 30 times on YouTube and then you're done with it. That's the way it is.

Most people just give up with time and go, "I'm a victim." The only reason I've got the reputation for delays and spending a long time on things is because I just don't stop.

I buy magazines. I'm not floating around in my own universe. I'm interested in everything.

I don't feel bound by the ebbs and flows of musical trends, or what's happening with new music in general.

We've had incredibly huge obstacles in our way - no tapes, no royalties, no cooperation on any level - and we sort it out.

I do need to loosen up a bit, and that usually does come with old age. That's the intention.

I wasn't making music for the sake of music but rather making music in the context of other music. At the same time, it doesn't mean I'm not going to try and do that some day.

Let’s not call cancer patients as patients, they are cancer fighters. They are brave hearts.

I usually call the new guy and let him know where I like to sit on the bus, tell him ways he can stay out of my way, make sure he knows not to touch any of my stuff.

Only what touches us closely preoccupies us. We prepare in solitude to face it. (The Little Book of Unsuspected Subversion)

Who is the honest man? He that doth still and strongly good pursue To God, his neighbor, and himself most true: Whom neither force nor fawning can Unpin, or wrench from giving all their due.

Truly, to blame the president for high gas prices is like blaming Rudy Giuliani for 9/11.

The peculiarity of the evidence of mathematical truths is that all the argument is on one side.

Creativity is to discover a question that has never been asked. If one brings up an idiosyncratic question, the answer he gives will necessarily be unique as well.

People show surprise that I have interests outside my political career. There is subtle surprise, for example, that I would be interested in a recipe.

No one, and nothing, will ever hurt you as long as I'm alive.