When something irritates me, I don't go home and write; I just don't do that.

If I'm in a corner, I like my corner. It's the coolest corner I've ever been in.

Hate heals, you should try it sometime.

I have tons of friends in the heavy-metal music world, and just going to see them inspires me.

In the crazy world of touring, if something gets stuck at customs, I can do a show with just my amp!

I think no matter what kind of music you play, there will be moments when you feel like it's all been done before.

I've never thrown out a TV set out of some hotel's window, but I have thrown a microwave out of one 'coz it was cooler.

I remember in the old days, when we were promoting a show, we'd be out taping flyers to high-school lockers. Now you just announce the show online, and it's a full house.

It's fun when you are on tour to go a place you are familiar with in any given city. It's like being home away from home.

My strangest media moment a photo session they all had dressed up like 50 gangsters. That was pretty cool. We have to get some more of those kind of photos sometimes.

It's hard 'coz you have got different time zones; you can't sleep and y'know, it's boring way for the show to happen, but you do off the stage. Y'know, onstage it's all better.

Stop trying to explain yourself. People only understand things from their level of perception

Abandon your resentments, they keep you small.

Gratitude is what we are without a story.

Wherever despotism abounds, the sources of public information are the first to be brought under its control.

There are some people who physically are not beautiful. But the way they are, the way they treat people, they become beautiful, and you forget all about [their looks].

One who hates is a man holding a magnifying-glass, and when he hates someone, he knows precisely that person's surface, from the soles of his feet all the way up to each hair on the hated head

I didn't have a stage mom at all. I was the one who planned out my auditions and drove myself an hour and a half into the city.

The older I've got the less I find myself going back and re-reading or really reading new fiction or poetry.

I don't care where the Cure is placed in the pantheon of rock. I don't care if we're perceived as relevant. We're never worried how we fit in. I don't even want to fit in.

I don't think one can run out and try and chase love.