“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.”

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 first time I ever saw him play, Tre Cool was wearing a tutu and an old-womans swimming cap.

When all else fails…be a rockstar

The darkness is coming now god dammit!

Out of the thousand writers huffing and puffing through movieland there are scarcely fifty men and women of wit or talent.

You look like gold. I’ve been fooled before, but now I know I’ve made the mistake in the past. But now I, now I know the difference from gold and brass.

I’ve never had a really creative idea sitting at my desk. All the big ideas that made a difference happened when I was playing outside.

We know in history that great individuals have totally changed everything, whether it be Jesus Christ or Abraham Lincoln or Winston Churchill or Albert Einstein. I actually think every person can make a difference.

The difference between ordinary and extra-ordinary is so often just simply that little word – extra. And for me, I had always grown up with the belief that if someone succeeds it is because they are brilliant or talented or just better than me…

Everyone gets the same twenty-four hours in a day, the difference is how you use it.

In New York I was always offered the hot, sexy roles. But in L.A. I was offered the plain, dowdy roles. It says a lot about the difference between the coasts

The only difference between ‘try’ and ‘triumph’ is varying degrees of ‘umph’