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

I think that’s the big difference between this one [Ordinary World] and a lot of the other rock ‘n’ roll movies. They’re playing to tape, but Fred Armisen and I were actually in a rock ‘n’ roll bad together.

I got body lice in Germany! I’d tell you they were crabs, but I wasn’t getting laid.

We never fit in completely to [the punk] scene because we were writing love songs that were heartfelt and endearing.

The things that people do now in sports, you can’t even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings can do in the highest level is amazing.

Attack your instruments. Don’t let them attack you.

You can’t go voicing something if it’s just not right.

Hopefully, I don’t ruin this guy’s precious script.” And then, after a couple of days of shooting,

You’re not telling people to think, you’re telling them what to think. And also you have to be honest with yourself on that, too.

The fact that I was taking naps in churches, in between takes of the [Ordinary World], and there was that guerilla style of filmmaking, I felt more at home with that.

I’m a dirt bag rock and roller. I want to represent that before anything else

The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids.

I never thought being obnoxious would get me where I am today.

She smashes her knuckles into winter As autumn’s wind fades into black She is the saint of all the sinners, the one whose fallen through the cracks… (iViva la Gloria!)

My wife is the CEO of the family. I’m the fun guy, just trying to make it up as I go along.

I just want to write good songs that people love, which is a tough thing to do.

Just because you’re in the missionary position don’t make you no missionary.

The longest journey is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest for the source of his being.

What we seek, at the deepest level, is inwardly to resemble, rather than physically to possess, the objects and places that touch us through their beauty.

Certain temperaments respond to anxiety by pulling inward.

Thus any increase of outward splendor is usually a sign of a decrease in inward illumination

The precept to worship God ‘in spirit and in truth’ recommand to worship him as an inward and moral force, without physical attributes and with no relation to fears and egoist wishes.

Most women have not even been able to touch this anger, except to drive it inward like a rusted nail.

When the inward is good the outward is also inevitably so, for the outward always follows the inward, whether good or evil.

A man’s attire is only an outward projection of his inward self.