When someone asks you, 'What's punk?' my reply is, 'If you have to ask, you're never going to know.'

I was happy to find out that when on tour, Dolly Parton doesn't use hotels but stays on her bus every night, to the point of having her buses shipped from Austria to Australia so she can tour the way she sees fit. I used one of her buses once - an honor.

When you title yourself, you immediately lend yourself to all kinds of pretension

I used to fight the pain, but recently this became clear to me: pain is not my enemy; it is my call to greatness. But when dealing with the Iron, one must be careful to interpret the pain correctly. Most injuries involving the Iron come from ego. I once spent a few weeks lifting weight that my body wasn’t ready for and spent a few months not picking up anything heavier than a fork. Try to lift what you’re not prepared to and the Iron will teach you a little lesson in restraint and self-control.

My love is a thousand French poets puking black blood on your Cure CD collection.

I simply cannot understand how any parent could kill themselves.

I got my heart broken. My spirit got shattered and mutilated. I will not be coming back from this. I don’t want to.