The average is the borderline that keeps mere men in their place. Those who step over the line are heroes by the very act. Go.

All by yourself, unable to express the pain of your distress with your deeper inside. You alienate yourself and everybody else.

I can deal with people who watch me on stage but I am not good in communicating with people any other way than through my work.

A lot of Americans don't have a passport, never will have a passport. Not only will they not travel, they don't want to travel.

All of the things that the bible warns you of being: jealous, covetous, murderous, selfish, etc., that's kind of how humans are.

You’ll never know that just sitting across a room full of people, I have transformed you into a goddess. A destroyer of despair.

I don't really have any women in my life, actually those two - the women in my life are two married women who work at my office.

You can pass all the gun legislation you want. None of it will make me feel any more or less safe than I do right at this moment.

I don't think you'll ever have a perfect world because we humans are prone to error, and so we're always in search of an upgrade.

I'm not a thrill seeker. I'm not looking to get kidnapped. I'm not looking to get a shot at. I've been shot at. I didn't like it.

Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which medium.

If some band sucks, you're going to have to find out about it for yourself, because I don't have the interest in issuing warnings.

I have built my life to pursue the new. I don't have family, don't know many people and I am usually ready to leave within an hour.

The scarcity of the music not only makes the music itself enjoyable but it also gives the collector a strange sense of superiority.

Consumerism is at once the engine of America and simultaneously one of the most revealing indicators of our collective shallowness.

When I die, the world dies with me. I'd really like to leave it better than how I found it and I'm doing what I can to effect that.

Smart people make good choices. They dig science and say 'no' to the invasion of sovereign nations for the pleasure of corporations.

I mean Black Flag happened. I was lucky. I don't think I could have put together something with one percent of that oomph on my own.

I forged myself out of a vacuum. I crawl along the highway on hacked off stumps year after year. Some wonder how and why. I never do.

Creating problems is easy. We do it all the time. Finding solutions, ones that last and produce good results, requires guts and care.

I think self-reliance and self-responsibility and self-accountability will help you as a parent, a teacher, as a citizen as a friend.

If you think about it, every single species is endangered. Homo sapiens at the front of the line, mosquitoes and lawyers at the back.

As a young person, I was on the road playing music, so I was getting new environments shoved in my face whether I wanted them or not.

Gay people don't have a personality problem. They have a problem with small-minded motherfuckers who can't conquer a 1-inch high curb.

Like a lot of inwardly drawn young people, I spent a lot of time in libraries. At my high school, I often spent my lunch breaks there.

You know, we are one nation under a god. Yes, you were right. An angry, crack slinging god who decorates with bullets and spent condoms.

You always know the mark of a coward. A coward hides behind freedom. A brave person stands in front of freedom and defends it for others.

I will never say the things that I want to say to you. I know the damage it would do. I love you more than I hate my loneliness and pain.

Well, there's Katrina, but you can go through lots of Kurdistan and it looks like Katrina was just there but there's people living in it.

I believe that contentment or any sustained period of joy that doesn't inspire thought that leads to action almost immediately is useless.

Could it be that violence is as much a part of the American identity as the Constitution, and a vital component to its economic stability?

One of the odd enjoyments in life is to be alone in a room full of people. To have them there as unknowing human filler in your wide shot.

To burn a CDR of music you like to give as a gift to someone you wish to become closer to is a cold, moist-palmed, mouth-breathing bummer.

Now and then, someone is able to look at an empty space, conclude it would be a great place to start a revolution, and bravely go forward.

When the movie comes out, what anybody thinks of it doesn't really matter to me. I don't go to the wrap party. I don't go to the premiere.

I'm a good authoritarian figure; I don't know why. 'Can you be a cop?' Sure. 'Can you be a Marine?' Absolutely. Well, at least in a movie.

I like people. Rightwingers don't. They like business, they don't care about people. I like education, they seem not to care much about it.

One of the most insane environments I have ever spent time in is a gun range. There we are, all in a line, armed to the teeth, firing away.

If the truth is told how I want to be remembered... as someone who cared. Someone who worked really hard and someone who didn't sit around.

I listen to blues music a lot and that's a good person feeling bad and celebrating that pain by releasing it in that kind of joyous fashion.

A man came up to me the other day and said he hadn't had a bite in weeks. So you know what I did? I walked by him like he didn't even exist.

I don't have a wife, I don't have any kids, I don't have any addictions that keep me drooling on the couch, and I'm kind of target oriented.

There’s got to be someone for me. It’s not too much to ask. Just someone to be with. Someone to love. Someone to give everything to. Someone.

You can say, "Well, I have a question," and someone will say, "Oh, so you hate America." And it has nothing to do with the discussion at all.

I think more airtime should be given to Donald Trump and Orly Taitz. They should run for office together. They should open for Charlie Sheen.

I think Americans suffer for their lack of travel, awareness of the world. It has horribly warped our sense of place in the scheme of things.

I was at the first Minor Threat show, and you could tell, 'This band is going to be the king of the town.' It was obvious. They were so good.

I'd like to talk to Arnold Schwarzenegger, 'cause I live in California and I just want to see that canned, chemical filled body in my office.

We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.

Maybe I'm ego-tripping, but I don't find myself a particularly horrible person, so I don't think I need to hold back anything I think or feel.

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