“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.”

It’s better to regret something you have done than to regret something you haven’t done.

Punk will never be dead to me. It’s my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me.

What kind of hang-ups does that person have?’ Obviously, it’s not just the catchy songs, it goes deeper than that.

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!)

I don’t think there’s any question journalists have become targets, but then I think that – that anyone who tries to practice liberty becomes a target of fanatics.

Writing doesn’t come easily to anyone, I think, certainly not to me. But pressure and practice does lend a certain fluency

This party wants to end multiculturalism and discriminate against anyone different.

Why is my leg broken on the ski trip and not anyone else’s?’ And I think that medicine has done a terrible job of addressing that spiritual violation.

I tell patients that tranquilizers alone never cure anyone.

The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?

People are terrified to be set free – they hold on to their chains. They fight anyone who tries to break those chains. It’s their security..

I fawn over these people. I have given them my heart and my soul. The trouble is, I’m unable to love anyone tangible