A gun in your hand makes a fool out of you. A gun in your hand makes a target out of me.

I don't hate the government. I don't think the Second Amendment is being infringed upon.

More guns equaling more safety is a slippery slope, and what makes it so is human blood.

To this day, my haircut is the number two clippers, which I apply to myself every month.

You might as well enjoy the day - you never know when and how painfully it could all end.

Having an identity is one thing. Being born into an identity is quite a different matter.

What you do for yourself is one thing. What you do for others is something else entirely.

Life is a hurdle and you'll never clear it. Death is the end of the ride and you fear it.

The times I have tried to get close to someone resulted in me feeling threatened and weak.

Don't go to summer camp. Bury your parents in the backyard and have the place to yourself.

Imagine a 15-year-old kid saying, 'I have two moms - it's cool.' I don't fear that at all.

I try to be well informed. I don't know how well I do all the time, but I try nonetheless.

A country that has been through as much as Vietnam has to have some crazy music somewhere.

No matter how rough things can be at times, many Americans are optimistic and on the move.

I live my life through the prism of capitalism and physiological limits and eventualities.

If I'm in L.A. for longer than 20 days, I'm looking for work, because I don't do vacations.

There is no place in the world like Australia. Not even its beautiful neighbor New Zealand.

With any advent in technology, any technological innovation, there is the good and the bad.

I used to sit on the roof of the apartment where Jim Morrison used to write his early lyrics

Music to me is mankind's greatest possible achievement because look at all the good it does.

More and more, journalism seems to have hopped out of Truth's pocket and crept into another.

When you're little and you don't have much dough, you have to innovate. You have to be sharp.

I don't wish to be anything more or less than what I am. If this is how it is, then so be it.

If I had to live my life in anticipation of what others thought of me, little would get done.

Technically speaking, there is no music whatsoever on a CD. Lots of information, but no music.

The blues is losing someone you love and not having enough money to immerse yourself in drink.

Love is self deception. I am a living creature. Hate is only self love. I am a double feature.

Music, to me, is mankind's greatest possible achievement because look at all the good it does.

I think Naomi Klein was very astute with her book 'Shock Doctrine.' We make money on disaster.

I want you bad like a natural disaster. You are all I see. You are the only one I want to know.

Contemporary bands often will do tour-only releases pressed and sold only in Australia. Crikey!

When you're very young, images that you upload into your very young mind tend to stay with you.

America has 2.2 million of it's citizens incarcerated. It's a statistic we should be ashamed of.

Most of the people who call me a sellout were 7 when I was down face-first in the punk trenches.

One person's roar is another's whine, just as one person's music is another's unendurable noise.

I continually remind myself to live by a code. It's very important to me. I've got a bad temper.

Castle Face Records, run by The Oh Sees main man, Johnny Dwyer is always worth checking in with.

Strength is the product of struggle, you must do what others don't to achieve what others won't.

I spend a lot of time alone so I get a lot done. I don't do much else but work, check things out.

People are best on records and books because you can turn them off or put them back on the shelf.

I prefer to work out alone. It enables me to concentrate on the lessons that the Iron has for me.

Youth is fleeting and life is short, you might as well strike hard. Anything else is just average.

I'm not harmful, just introspective. You can probably think I'm weird, but it's not harmful weird.

America's foreign policy lacks the backbone to do the right thing in Afghanistan - which is leave.

I'll never forget how the depression and loneliness felt good and bad at the same time. Still does.

When I am in Africa, I realize I don't know much, have not seen much, and there's a lot to be done.

Ramones music has a Pavlovian effect on me - the song starts, and the world blurs around the sound.

No child asks to get born, so when they are here, they should be shielded from any possible horror.

I don't really think about the audience much. I think of myself. Let me dig myself out of that one.

I work pretty much every day. I can't really separate it from life, so I guess the work is my life.

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