I have to say that anger is the blanket that comes around me, and that blunts and blurs my sense of proportion.

Although I was well past my teenage troubles, our music was specifically designed to lubricate the passage from adolescence to adulthood.

The music we play has to be tomorrow's, the things we say have to be today, and the reason for bothering is yesterday.

Rumors went round that I might be gay. In some ways, I was happy w/ this. Larry Rivers proved to me that a gay man could be wild, attractive, and courageous; in any case one's sexuality was becoming less of an issue every day. One of the great things about the British Mod movement was that being macho was no longer the only measure of manhood.

Most of my songs are about Jesus. Most of my songs are about the idea that there is salvation, and that there is a Savior. But I won't mention his name in a song just to get a cheap play.

Punk rock was the tsunami that threatened to drown us all in 1977.

Rock 'n' Roll might not solve your problems, but it does let you dance all over them