When someone asks you, 'What's punk?' my reply is, 'If you have to ask, you're never going to know.'

My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud.

Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.

No such thing as spare time, no such thing as free time, no such thing as down time. All you got is life time. Go.

I am an optimist because I want to change things for the better and I know that blood has to be spilled and disharmony and cruelty are necessary to do that.

I have found the Iron to be my greatest friend. It never freaks out on me, never runs. Friends may come and go. But two hundred pounds is always two hundred pounds

It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

Strength is the product of struggle, you must do what others don't to achieve what others won't.

There’s one thing about Black Sabbath which should not be understated: If Black Sabbath is missing any one of its members it’s no longer Black Sabbath.

We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.

It is quiet at home today. I got my wisdom tooth extracted.

The only time it's hopeless is when you're dead! Long as you're alive, you can get better - you can make it better.

Omnipresence can be a good or bad thing, I suppose. I don't want to spend a lot of time thinking about it. I'm super-grateful.

Where principles and heart stand in conflict with each other, let us make the law of the spirit free from the law of principles.

It's only a dogma that hells exists; it isn't a dogma that there's anybody in it.

You'll get more from being a peacemaker than a warrior.

My father will go see Trans-Siberian Orchestra every single year. I mean, he's completely into it.

I would not like to see a person who is sober, moderate, chaste and just say that there is no God. They would speak disinterestedly at least, but such a person is not to be found.

Tomorrow the revolution will already 'raise itself with a rattle' and announce with fanfare, to your terror: I was, I am, I will be!

In Morocco, it's possible to see the Atlantic and the Mediterranean at the same time.