You've gotta be slightly stupid.

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.

If all of her was not enough for him, then let him have none of her and seek what he needed elsewhere.

The love between humans is the thing that nails us to the earth.

We must do what we think we can't do.

Black Sabbath was written on bass: I just walked into the studio and went, bah, bah, bah, and everybody joined in and we just did it.

Your success as a writer will probably not depend on how well you write so much as in how you handle rejections.

I loved acting. I didn’t particularly like being a movie star.

There is never enough gold to redeem all the currency in circulation.

When I face the media, maybe I don't feel it now, here with you, because it's a different sort of interview, but when I face the media before or after the game, I feel it as part of the game.

Eventually the revolutionaries become the established culture, and then what will they do

I know too much to be a sceptic and too little to be a dogmatist.