Yes, confidence was knowing I could do anything. But, I realized, confidence must always be rooted in work. In sweat. In pain-good pain. And in honesty.

True education expands your imagination. False education fills your mind with dogma and makes you a prisoner of conformity.

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet

Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.

It doesn't do you any service to demonize any group of people. It's much better to try and understand from the inside.

Punk is no longer a subculture or a counterculture in any way. It's totally just a small reflecting mirror for the same things that go on in larger culture.

Women and rhythm-section first!?

All readers are good readers, when they have the right book.

Be circumspect how you offend schollers, for knowe, a serpent tooth bites not so ill, as dooth a schollers angrie quill.

I've always taken my hangovers as consequence, not as a punishment.

If gun free zones save lives, why doesn't Obama just declare Iraq, Syria & Afghanistan one big gun free zone?