Yeah, all those things, responsibility, pressure. It's a bit stressful. I try and come to terms with it by not thinking about it.

Punk rock isn't something you grow out of Punk rock is an attitude, and the essence of that attitude is 'give us some truth'

Everyone has got to realise you can't hold onto the past if you want any future. Each second should lead to the next one.

I don't have any other message than don't forget you are alive

When I started, they told me I only needed 3 chords and the truth... It turned out I could manage with 2 and some vague ideas.

The way you get a better world is, you don't put up with substandard anything.

In fact, punk rock means exemplary manners to your fellow human beings.

We're all going to have to learn to live together and develop a greater tolerance and get rid off whatever our fathers gave us in the way of hatred between nations.

Don't write slogans, write truths.

The future is unwritten.

When you blame yourself, you learn from it. If you blame someone else, you don't learn nothing, cause hey, it's not your fault, it's his fault, over there.

You are always a gardener. What grows - and how it grows - is up to you.

Every teenager is both a hero and a failure. When we become adults we have to choose where in the middle we’ll be.

You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.

When they attack you and you notice that you love them with all your heart, your Work is done.

I believe very strongly in paid sick leave.

The success of any change depends, in large measure, on your attitude about that change.

When I sort of step in my jazz world, it's somewhere between instrumental jazz and vocal jazz.

It is the responsibility of the sender to make sure the receiver understands the message.

Far too many people spend a lifetime headed in the wrong direction. They go not only from the cradle to the cubicle, but then to the casket, without uncovering their greatest talents and potential.

We pray because our life comes from God and we yield it back in prayer. Prayer is a great antidote to the illusion that we are self-made.