I tend to be a subscriber to the idea that you have everything you need by the time you're 12 years old to do interesting writing for most of the rest of your life - certainly by the time you're 18.

The great challenge of adulthood is holding on to your idealism after you lose your innocence.

Some guys they just give up living, and start dying little by little, piece by piece.

Badlands, you got to live it everyday, let the broken hearts stand as the price you've got to pay.

I think when you're a child, you just cling to the basics, which is the basic story of Jesus and the crucifixion and hell and eternal punishment and the flames. This was all stuff that was - forget when you're young.

The past is never the past. It is always present. And you better reckon with it in your life and in your daily experience, or it will get you. It will get you really bad.

I met a girl and we ran away, I swore I'd make her happy every day. And how I made her cry, two faces have I.