I don't know why, but I've always been a sucker for roller coasters in movies.
I like to keep my girlish figure
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.
My journey has been that of a character actor.
Compare the emotional vocabulary available to a leader (confidence, satisfaction, indignation) with the emotions not permitted (regret, embarrassment, dread, angst, mortification, anger, surprise, wonder, doubt), and it becomes apparent why perfectly normal people, upon entering public life, transform into cartoons - because they are not free to express what a normal person would feel in their situation.
There was no "decision" per se to re-position myself. I simply decided that I wanted to write a book that would help people influence others.
We are storied folk. Stories are what we are; telling and listening to stories is what we do.