Practice love and self-acceptance and you'll have an absolutely beautiful life.
I started off small and then this was just the great opportunity.
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.
In some instances even certain social services that normally were supplied, or pre-empted by the state. Take the United States, the [Ronald] Reagan administration is withdrawing assistance, all kinds of welfare programs, and if people don't improvise their own resources to cope with problems of the ageing, problems of the sick, problems of the young, problems of the poor, problems of tenant rights, who will?
It is a danger to wait around for an idea to occur to you. You have to find the idea.
We mountaineers always live with the feeling that we came on the scene too late.
I certainly immerse myself in as many crazy Hollywood events as I can because you never know where you can pick up material.