Your skin starts itching once you buy that gimmick about something called love.

There are no pimps, no whores, no transvestites - gone. Now that's more the culture I'm comfortable in ... I don't like it in the house, you know what I mean, but I like it somewhere around.

They say that death kills you, But death doesn't kill you. Boredom and indifference kill you.

The future of rock n roll is Justin Bieber.

My general take on American music since 1969 is that it's just getting stiffer and people are getting more uptight - audience, performance, and palace guard.

When the 'godfather of punk' thing started floatin' around, it was, I was really, really embarrassed. I thought I should have a great, big rig and a cape and everything, and it was very embarrassing. And then after a while, you learn that if people call you anything, this is a great gift.

Musical types tend to combine the burden of the author with the burden of the actor.