Kids need parents who love and support them unconditionally, full stop.

As a young person, I wanted everyone to agree with me.

Everything I do, writing, touring, travelling, it all comes from the punk and hardcore attitude, from that expression - from being open to try things but relying on yourself, taking what you have into the battle and making of it what you will, hoping you can figure it out as you go. Make some sense of it.

All by yourself, unable to express the pain of your distress with your deeper inside. You alienate yourself and everybody else.

August, the summer's last messenger of misery, is a hollow actor.

Once you say something, it stays said. I apologized to anyone who may have been hurt by what I said, and I really meant it. I am absolutely not interested in hurting anyone, or being mean or insensitive.

For many years, I tried to make New Year's resolutions. I made lists and shot for great heights: I would show altruism and exert moral strength, patience and all those other great attributes.