It is fun to be alive. It's a hell of a lot better than being dead.

If you ain't thinkin about man and God and law, then you ain't thinkin about nothin'.

I began thinking there should be an American phrase book, 'cause I've got an Italian phrase book, and an Arabic one... now a British one. I think it'd be pretty good to have an American phrase book.

When I started, they told me I only needed 3 chords and the truth... It turned out I could manage with 2 and some vague ideas.

everybody has a story to tell

In fact, punk rock means exemplary manners to your fellow human beings.

What's holding me up is I'm confused about the nature of the music. Because the modern music doesn't reach me. I mean to say the sound of the modern electric production. A lot of sequencers... synths. That's what people are buying. Because that doesn't reach me, it throws me back to like 1948, but I don't want to be there. Back there, I'm talking about blues records... The roots of rock'n'roll is rhythm and blues and that's like really where I'm at, where I was always at.