Rocks Quotes

When I started out, everyone seemed to be adopting these names… Johnny Rotten, Sid Vicious. I wasn’t really Rotten or Vicious or Nasty, so I wanted something a bit more funny – yet something that seemed real rock ‘n’ roll… something that acknowledged my ambition.

What most interests me is human connection, whether it’s on the street, in community, through music, storytelling, and shared experience. People tell me to be a rock cellist, make money, and give up on the activism so I can make more money.

People from the rock and roll world have felt for years that electronic music had no soul, but now electronic music can not only have soul but have all the shapes in the world.

I sat down one night and wrote the line rock, rock, rock everybody.

Dinosaur fossils were placed in rocks by prankster God just to make human beings think the world is older than it is.

Stand up like a mountain; have faith like a rock; love like an avalanche

The thing about punk is that there are purists. Once you start going outside of that, they don’t think what you’re doing is punk rock.

Rock Band never got anybody a date. Never.

Ric Flair is the greatest guy ever. He just wants to hang out, have a beer, and tell stories. He’s the coolest. I’ve never met The Rock though.

Rock isn’t art, it’s the way ordinary people talk.