“Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything.”

I approach playing acoustic guitar more of as a percussive instrument. It’s fragile. I don’t have a lot of finesse when it comes to my guitar playing.

I played St. Jimmy on Broadway I sort of caught the acting bug. But I didn’t want to go full-bore into it because I have a lot to learn.

That’s where all good music comes from, I think – anything that’s likely to have an impact on pop culture comes from a point where there’s no expectation of it becoming anything other than personal.

‎The day you become old is the day you’re not looking for new experiences anymore.

I don’t want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward.

The bigger the risks, the better off you are. Otherwise you’re just boring.

I heard Davey Havok has a brand of eyeliner out now… its AFI-liner

There’s an honesty in our family – my kids and I are able to talk about things without me putting the fear of God into them.

I think the working-class part of me comes out. Sometimes the people who have the loudest mouths are upper-class, upper-middle-class.

I think that the character actually really loves where he’s at, in his life. He’s just trying to have it make a little bit more sense while he figures out what he actually wants to do with it.

I just plug in and let go.

I have no idea where my career is going. I just make the best music that I possibly can.

Every night I play as if my life depends on it.

I thought everybody was in on the joke. But I was the joke.

I hate celebrities. I really hate them.

We’d go through the script together, rehearsing it before every shot with the other actors. He was just easy to work with. We were able to put it in my language, which was really important.

The essence of warriorship, or the essence of human bravery, is refusing to give up on anyone or anything.

Obama provides hope. Whether he does anything, the hope that he provides for a nation and outside of America is enough. Just being who he is. You’re the first black president. If he speaks on any issue or anything, he should be left alone.

Like poetry, fashion does not state anything. It merely suggests.

If faces were different when lit from above or below — what was a face? What was anything?

At my age, I’m just happy to be named the greatest living anything.

There is not one incident in the history of humanity in which defeatism led to peace which was anything other than a complete fraud.

It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.

I wouldn’t do the ‘Magic Hour’ again, but I would do TV again. The ‘Magic Hour’ is not me.