“People that you thought were your friends give you shit about working hard. All I know is that we play hard and a lot of this shit is not fun. Playing is great but the way we live is not the life of a rockstar.”

“It would be nice to be touched by hands that didn’t want to kill or congratulate me. Sometimes the hands that want to kill me are mine.”

“I think that I’m running from something I heard on the radio That everybody’s working for the weekend When does the weekend start? What comes at the end of the week? The end? Picture a tired dog chasing its tail”

“You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.”

“I wear my sunglasses. Keeps you on one side and me on the other.”

“I’m twenty-three and I sound like I’m fifty-five.”

“I was listening to the radio the other day in California and one of our songs came on and I jumped because I couldn’t find my microphone. Now that’s damage.”

“I will never be able to pound words into lines To match the velocity of your presence”

“Don’t let them scar you with their weakness. They will cripple you with their lives. They will make you want to die just to get away from them.”

“There’s a great feeling when you’re totally resolved. When you make the jump from being lonely to being only. When you’re so totally alone and absolute.”

“I love the hate mail I get, the unsigned, misspelled letters telling me to go back to Russia or whatever.”

“I will do to you what you taught me. I will pass my fingers over my scars and read them like Braille and they will tell me what to do.”

“In the place of the things I have denied myself, I have things that mean more to me than sex, fun and happiness ever could.”

“I couldn’t tell if I was being distant to someone, or rude or even hostile. I only know a good night and a bad night. I know that I remember the bad night longer than the good night.”

“If you’re finding life to be the one thing that’s trying to kill you, I want you to stay alive to rise with the sun and fight back.”

“It hurt to pull out the slivers but I knew that I couldn’t bleed anymore, I had lost too much blood already. Now I remain, scarred and regaining strength.”

“Freedom gives you everything you need to fail on a monumental scale.”

“I think to myself and at the same time, I know these thoughts can’t be the ones I really want to think. That there must be something better to have on my mind than what fills it and refuses to stop occupying all the room.”

“Life has no instruction manual. Parts and labor can be impossible to find. Many go down the road with parts that are in great need of service. A breakdown is eventual.”

“Life has no instruction manual. Parts and labor can be impossible to find. Many go down the road with parts that are in great need of service. A breakdown is eventual.”

“There’s no such thing as friendship. You just get what you need when you need it as fast as you can. The only reason that people give is so they can take later on.”

“The countryside is beautiful. I’ve never seen anything like it. Thatched roofs on the houses. Snow everywhere, the sky is so blue. I’m 22 years old today.”

“we get to Preston and find that it’s depressing”

“I need to know what you think of me so I can form an opinion about myself.”

“Don’t take candy from strangers unless you’re willing to take a ride in the car.”

“Getting rid of you is a good thing, that’s why I don’t write you back I’m vomiting every memory from my system”

“Music makes life possible.”

“He shuffled into middle-age silently and without protest.”

“Keep your blood clean, your body lean, and your mind sharp.”

“There will be no real life There will be the alcohol circus”

“You hide your fear and call it something else You’re addicted to all the things that make you weak”

“Stay away from people They’ll slow you down and break your heart”

“It’s hard to change adults. They are going to do what they are going to do.”

“It’s hard to change adults. They are going to do what they are going to do.”

“Now shut the fuck up and watch some MTV.”

“My heart is making a dull, drumming sound and I’m thinking that my life is a waiting game and I’m sinkin’ all the while.”

“She left an empty house in my heart. The lights don’t work anymore, the heater’s broken.”

“America is seething at all times. It's like a Gaza Strip that's three thousand miles long.”

“Sometimes it’s hard to convince yourself that you’re not an idiot.”

“I wish I wasn’t alive as much as you are dead”

“What is this bullshit? 97% caffeine free is 97% not my kind of thing.”

“I don’t ask for much. I should ask for a lot, then maybe I might get some.”

“I’m sorry for not being sorry that I’m not sorry”

“All bullshit and no death and mutilated assholes makes Jack a dull boy, dull and tense.”

“Jangles my nerves like a tambourine of razors.”

“Yesterday wants to pull me in, pull me down and starve me.”

“Sleep is my escape. It gives me a break from the ceaseless self awareness that I choke on.”

“You’re going to do what you’re going to do and that’s all there is. That’s all you got and that’s that.”

In the city of Pyongyang, you don't have to look very far to see an image of the Great Leader, Kim Il Sung. They love the guy. He is responsible for the wonder that is North Korea.

Questioning anything and everything, to me, is punk rock.