Woodstock was about the closest thing to anarchy I've ever seen in my whole life, and I didn't like it.

There's nothing wrong with being a loser, it just depends on how good you are at it.

Music to me is the air I breathe it's the blood that pumps through my veins that keeps me alive

A man once asked me, what's punk? I kicked over a trash can and said that's punk. He kicked over a trash can and then asked me again, Is that punk? I replied no. That's just trendy.

School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect, so why practice?

You can't change the wind but you can set your sails.

Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything.

To do something that you feel in your heart that's great, you need to make a lot of mistakes. Anything that's successful is a series of mistakes.

‎The day you become old is the day you're not looking for new experiences anymore.

It's better to regret something you have done than to regret something you haven't done.

Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality.

Know what you want. Pursue what you need. Realize what you ought. Attain what you desire.

The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.

The average bright young man who is drafted hates the whole business because an army always tries to eliminate the individual differences in men.

Don't be afraid to try again everyone goes south every now and then.

Having inborn capabilities doesn't matter. Whether you can manage them or not, that's what determines the victory or defeat.

A phenomenon like Mozart remains an inexplicable thing.

The death tax is unfair, inefficient, economically unsound and, frankly, immoral.

...what I dread more than anything else in this life is noise...silence helps you to go inward..anyone who is interested in something more than just life outside actually needs silence.

If you miss someone too much you turn into them... though it doesn't seem to work for the Christian Church.