“If you end up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on television telling you how to do your shit, then you deserve it.”

Drugs will turn you into your parents.

Reality is what it is, not what you want it to be.

Music is the only religion that delivers the goods.

If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.

Don’t mind your make-up, you’d better make your mind up.

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

Nobody looks good with brown lipstick on.

Environmental laws were not passed to protect our air and water, they were passed to get votes.

The more you can escape from how horrible things really are, the less it’s going to bother you and then, the worse things get.

The only difference between a cult and a religion is the amount of real estate they own.

There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we’d all love one another.

A composer’s job involves the decoration of fragments of time.

Sometimes you got to get sick before you can feel better.

Beauty is a pair of shoes that makes you wanna die.

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.

Don’t go to bed with any woman crazier than you are.