You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.
That's the gamble that you make when you decide to become a rock musician. It's totally unpredictable.
The thing about punk is that there are purists. Once you start going outside of that, they don't think what you're doing is punk rock.
Nobody leaves this band unless it's in a coffin
We never fit in completely to [the punk] scene because we were writing love songs that were heartfelt and endearing. Some of the punks didn't know what to make of us, but I finally realized that was what made us punk. We sang what we meant, from the heart, and didn't worry about what anyone was going to think.
Punk is dead to anyone who didn't get it in the first place
I never thought being obnoxious would get me where I am today.
Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.
The truth is, no study is possible on the battle-field; one does there simply what one can in order to apply what one knows. Therefore, in order to do even a little, one has already to know a great deal and to know it well.
Peace is unattained by part performance of conditions, even as a chemical combination is impossible without complete fulfillment of the conditions of attainment thereof.
Life seems complicated to me; I feel confused a lot of the time by life. I feel confused about the fact that we can be so tender as creatures to one another, and so monstrous at the same time.