When you do music, your friends are writers, actors, painters. It's all under the sameroof. So anything creative is interesting to me.

Performing to me is the most vital, most important. It's my favorite part of all of it. I just want to be on stage.

If I'm working on one thing, then that's all that there is going on, and there's no such thing as a side project to me. It's 100 percent.

Playing a song changes a song. Every night a song becomes something else on stage.

I actually got into music because of art and because of skateboarding: All those graphics and punk bands and fanzines - they were glued together in my brain.

Performing is one thing, and day-to-day stuff - like the way you talk to people - is totally different. If I acted like I did onstage in normal life, everyone would probably hate me.

I think you have to find your own language. You find your footing with it, and you start to express it in certain ways.

I think things are beautiful when you don’t plan them, and you don’t have any expectations, and you’re not trying to get somewhere in particular.

Everyone facing death, especially premature death, like us, will be kicking themselves about each wasted hour.

A bright man of conviction and action is a beacon to his country, but a flash light to the scurrying of inaction, ego, and insecurity of lesser men.

When God chooses you to deliver a message, to have a purpose, no one and nothing can reverse the course of His plan.

Saylor and Beau worked together not like a piston head turned by a camshaft, but like the torque created from such synchronicity.

If you're sad, add more lipstick and attack.

As the shadow in early morning, is friendship with the wicked; it dwindles hour by hour. But friendship with the good increases, like the evening shadows, till the sun of life sets.

A boy who won't stand up for himself becomes a man who can't stand up to anything.

I want to be a manager for new artists, get real estate.

I think that when youre making a story... thats based on somebody, the filmmaker has his duty to do his research.