You can never win as a sight-seer. Somebody else, more often than not the first person you meet when you get back home, has been there before you.
I want to go home and just go for a long walk. And where I want to go, I have no idea
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.
I did not succeed in everything I did. And even where it did seem I was succeeding it was not always the case. The human heart has a million facets.
Globally, emissions may have to be reduced, the scientists are telling us, by as much as 60% or 70%, with developed countries likely to have to make even bigger cuts if we're going to allow the developing world to have their share of growing industrial prosperity. . . The Kyoto Protocol is only the first rather modest step. Much, much deeper emission reductions will be needed in future. The political implications are mind-blowing.
A traveler enters the world into which he travels, but a tourist brings his own world with him and never sees the one he's in.
Whatever fame came did so not because I sought it.