“I just open my mouth and out it comes.”

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!

Emotional stability and expression comes from women.

As one is blessed, it is his privilege to help those whose lives are not as easy. Unity comes from strife, child.” Page 193

When something that can never quite be reenacted comes to an end (and all moments are that way),

You sit there for hours, days and weeks with a guitar and piano until something good comes.

Our success comes from stability.

You know, every time it comes, every time that light comes on or every time that camera comes on, every time that microphone comes on, the Mac Man seek and destroy.

These are just things that we don’t know, and that’s where trust and faith come in.

The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.