“If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my life.”

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!)

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

Writing is like a bird-watcher watching for birds: the stories are there: you just have to train yourself to look for them.

I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.

…don’t ask me why I know what an Edwardian smoking jacket looks like: let’s just say it has something to do with Doctor Who and leave it at that.

I look to an out gay man or woman as pretty much what I would aspire to. The strength that it takes to do that and the floodgates that open and what they pay for it.

It took me 10 years to write a story that pleased me – that I could look at after it was published and not cringe.

If a teacher wants to know something why doesn’t she look it up herself instead of making we students do it? We benefit ourselves more by listening to her, after all she’s the teacher!

I always finish off my look with a spritz of Vera Wang Pink Princess.

Rage properly channeled can definitely give birth to good even great theater. Disgust, a more passive and distancing emotion, is far less likely to. Would you rush to a play called Look Back in Queasiness?