“I don’t think you ever write a song with any intention except the song’s about such and such per say.”

Well my wife and I just had a baby ourselves and it makes it harder to be on the road.

It’s time for Americans to stop worrying about Kim Kardashian and figure out how we’re gonna save our kids.

Big pharma has a strangle hold on the politicians. They’re stepping over the corpses of the children of America to cash their checks.

It isn’t for everybody and it can burn people out, and that’s what’s happened in the past.

We’ve just kept the ship running y’know what I mean? You change engineers from time to time and as long as everybody coming aboard knows what direction the ship is, everything’s alright.

We’re all fortunate to be able to be doing this for a living, so we’re just grateful to be here and we just do what we do and we let the people decide.

I’m not one for being too profound, but I will say this. If you wanna have a good time.

if you wanna drink a little bit y’know get your sing-a-long on, come and see the Dropkick Murphys and have a good time.

We just do what we do, we’re grateful every night when there’s people in front of the stage and singing our songs back at us.

We’ve never written a song and thought ‘oh it’d be great if in this part this happened in the audience’.

It’s nice to know there’s a big world with many perspectives. I tend to get so stuck in my own small world easily, and going out into the world reminds me that I’m not the center of the world – in a good way.

I’d be a conservative if I’d never met any. They’re selfish, mean-spirited, egocentric, reactionary, and boring.

I do not have any other way of saying it. I think it happens but once and only to the very young when it feels like your skin could ignite at the mere touch of another person. You get to love like that but once.

A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.

I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods.

I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices today than any of you to secure peace.

In general, any form of exercise, if pursued continuously, will help train us in perseverance. Long-distance running is particularly good training in perseverance.

Any man who makes a speech more than six times a year is bound to repeat himself, not because he has little to say, but because he wants applause and the old stuff gets it.