Everyone thinks of God as a man - you can't help it - Santa Claus was a man, therefore God has to be a man.

To me, punk rock is the freedom to create, freedom to be successful, freedom to not be successful, freedom to be who you are. It's freedom.

New generations have unprecedented power to make great changes. Take the music business for example. The new generations have toppled the music industry by file sharing, downloading, and Myspace. Rock 'n' roll belongs to the people.

I don't think anything can prepare you for one's losses.

I have vague memories, like impressions on glass plates.

An artist may have burdens the ordinary citizen doesn't know, but the ordinary citizen has burdens that many artists never even touch.

Good press, bad press, whatever, only means a lot to me if it's writ by somebody I respect, by somebody I like.