When you're little and you don't have much dough, you have to innovate. You have to be sharp.

I'm terrified of motorcycles. I've been on one a couple of times. I did not like it.

I think that Goldman Sachs and the Pentagon determine more of America's outcome then any president or any congress, that sounds a bit cynical, but I think I am right.

In the worst of times the best among us never lose their moral compass, and that is how they emerge relatively unscathed.

If I think of the audience too much, then I'm going to start catering to them...and it turns into entertainment. And I've got time for entertainment; I'm just not at all that interested in doing it myself. I'd rather go for some pretty raw expression.

Joe Strummer, Johnny Rotten, and Ian MacKaye were all people who really made me see things differently.

if i was a woman these days, i'd be killing motherfuckers. my handgun would never cool and my hands would be covered in testicular blood. i would have a horrible reputation with a lot of men because i would be calling them on their weak bullshit left and right.