When I was young I was one of those kids that got pulled onstage at a Green Day concert. That was pretty awesome.

One of my favorite quotes ever was from Slash from Guns and Roses and he said 'to be truly iconic, you need to be able to recognized in a silhouette'

Life's too short to drink crappy coffee and cry over boys who don't care.

Never take a person away from the music they love.

I'm just tired; I just want the world to be quiet for a bit.

There's a lot that's happened in my life that maybe I didn't want to happen, but I suppose it's led me to exactly where I am now.

I'd kill myself without music. Immediately. Life is pointless without music for me.

People think that atheists have nothing to live for, but that's not true - it's that we have nothing to die for.

We like to juxtapose our music with a more dour aesthetic.

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

The idea of being part of this tapestry of humanity is a far more enlightening idea for me than believing you are going to this different place when you die. The magic of reality is far more potent.

Don't ever live vicariously. This is your life. Live.

If you're preaching, I've already got religion. And if you're selling, I ain't buying--unless you've got binoculars. I could use some new binoculars.

Pride has often been his best friend. It has connected him nearer with virtue than any other feeling.

If you can't even change the way you read.How can you change the way you think..

We didn't underestimate them. They were just a lot better than we thought.

You love me. You ignore me. You save my life, then you cook my mother into soap.

Reports about very innocent people being thrown into detention, where they could be held for years without any representation or charges, is distressing.

Primary (the LDS Church's Sunday school for children) is where you go to do with somebody else's mother the things you would do with your own mother if she weren't so busy teaching Primary.

This is the only sane clerical the earthquake has exposed to view yet.

So we believed that strategic alliances and partnerships were critical, and we did that for five years.