Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.

My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud.

We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.

Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good.

You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

I have come to the conclusion that it's a waste of time to have too much pride in anything. Perhaps it's good to have a sense of duty, a jealous zeal to protect or improve, but pride ultimately is only that which stands vulnerable to offense and degradation.

I would like go to Palestine and interview people there about what their lives are like; same thing in Iran.

Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own.

It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.

Weakness is what brings ignorance, cheapness, racism, homophobia, desperation, cruelty, brutality, all these things that will keep a society chained to the ground, one foot nailed to the floor.

Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated.

Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.

I don't believe in fate or destiny. I believe in various degrees of hatred, paranoia, and abandonment. However much of that gets heaped upon you doesn't matter - it's only a matter of how much you can take and what it does to you.

Pizza makes me think that anything is possible.

Nothing brings people together more, then mutual hatred.

Musicians should not play music. Music should play musicians.

If I lose the light of the sun, I will write by candlelight, moonlight, no light, If I lose paper and ink, I will write in blood on forgotten walls. I will write always. I will capture nights all over the world and bring them to you.

Change is hard, but change is good.

I love capitalism. It rewards me for being brave - it awards me for being innovative and thinking out of the box.

When I'm off the road, and I can really control my diet down to the calorie, I juice seven days a week. Every afternoon, whatever I have at hand, beets, carrots, ginger, whatever. I juice, literally, every single day. And on the road, I try to find fresh juice wherever I can.

In winter, I plot and plan. In spring, I move.

There is not one single police officer in America that I am not afraid of and not one that I would trust to tell the truth or obey the laws they are sworn to uphold. I do not believe they protect me in any way.

If the Constitution was a movie, the Preamble would be the trailer, the First Amendment the establishing shot, the 13th the crowd pleaser and the 14th the ultimate hero scene.

Keep your blood clean, your body lean, and your mind sharp.

Live music is the cure for what ails ya.

When you are young, there is so much ahead of you, it's like the Saharan desert. You can't even see across it.

Now and then, someone is able to look at an empty space, conclude it would be a great place to start a revolution, and bravely go forward.

America's foreign policy lacks the backbone to do the right thing in Afghanistan - which is leave.

Consumerism is at once the engine of America and simultaneously one of the most revealing indicators of our collective shallowness.

When I think of Mick Jagger still singing that he can't get any satisfaction in over forty years of being in the Rolling Stones, I have to conclude that he's either lying or not all that bright.

I am on until I am dead, like a light bulb.

I like boring black and white films with subtitles. I'm basically a drip.

Questioning anything and everything, to me, is punk rock.

I'm not exactly ambitious as much as I have a very good realization of what I am and what I am capable of.

We know that in September, we will wander through the warm winds of summer's wreckage. We will welcome summer's ghost.

When someone asks you, 'What's punk?' my reply is, 'If you have to ask, you're never going to know.'

Now, if someone wants to spit on me, I just roll up the window of my BMW 540i.

Early spring is the time for vigorous change, a preparation for the heat-driven oppression that is to come.

'Fox News' will one day come to an end. Led Zeppelin will not. It's as simple as that.

Don't do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul. When you go to work, work your ass off. When you hate someone, hate them until it hurts.

I think self-reliance and self-responsibility and self-accountability will help you as a parent, a teacher, as a citizen as a friend.

Everyone who knows me knows that I'm a hopeless romantic who listens to love ballads and doo-wop songs all the time.

I've been on 'Jay Leno,' and everyone likes Jay, but being on that show is a really boring afternoon. I sincerely like Jay, but I wouldn't want his job, because I'd have to interview Kathy Ireland, and there's nothing there I'd want to know.

I think that humans have a huge capacity to carry pain and sadness. There are things that haunt us our entire lives; we are unable to let them go. The good times seem almost effervescent and dreamlike in comparison with the times that didn't go so well.

In Israel, there's a lot to learn from anyone, because to live there you've got to deal with the truth. Things happen real fast. Your day goes from cool to catastrophic in one second. Israelis know that the cafe you're in could blow up, or the shopping mall, and they rock that.

Kids need parents who love and support them unconditionally, full stop.

Voting is completely important. People in America think democracy is a given. I think of it as an ecosystem, and what gets in the way of it is politicians and apathy.

When people hold you in high esteem, it's very delicate relationship. When they meet you they're putting all their chips up. It's make or break.

Adolescence is a plague on the senses.

I don't think you'll ever have a perfect world because we humans are prone to error, and so we're always in search of an upgrade.

There's a lot of mountain climbers trapped inside of bodies of people behind the counter at Kinko's.

With any advent in technology, any technological innovation, there is the good and the bad.

I am an employment hyena. I am happy to make a meal of what the lions leave behind.

I am a veteran of the War on Christmas. I am just emerging from a battlefield strewn with dead trees and torn shreds of brightly colored wrapping paper.

Where there is young people and vitality, you're going to find punk rock.

I consider any gun that can chamber a round and send a projectile down its barrel at a high rate of speed into my body - causing me injury or death - to be an assault weapon.

My motto is, 'Never quit.'

I once asked Ozzy Osbourne, truly one of my favorite people in the world, if he was cool with singing Black Sabbath songs year after year, whether he was performing with Black Sabbath or out on a solo tour. He said it was great.

There is a lot to say about what Bikini Kill and other 'riot grrrl' bands were able to achieve when they first set out. They were not some momentary, convulsive, creative spasm of independent music. There was a very real, relevant point of view being expressed.