Music’s at its best when it has a purpose.
You kill yourself and you make a big old sacrifice and try to get your revenge. That all you’re gonna end up with is a paragraph in a newspaper. In the end, it does nothing. Nothing changes. The world goes on and you’re gone. The best revenge is to live on and prove yourself.
You don’t love me. If you really knew me, you wouldn’t love me. You love who you think I am. And don’t pretend that you know me. Because I don’t even know myself.
The smallest oceans still make big big waves.
It’s saying, just stop, and be together. Don’t talk now, just breathe and feel each other’s presence...
Music saved me; I mean, my upbringing was like a hurricane, and music was the tree I held onto.
I’ve got my indignation but I’m pure in all my thoughts.
Do you force your kids to pay attention to what’s going on, or do you let them live their lives outside of it? My hope is that my child is a strong activist. That would make me most proud.
War doesn’t determine who’s right, it determines who’s left.
The love received is the love that is saved.
I don’t wanna think, I wanna FEEL.
As far as viewpoints, I think I’m more well-rounded and definitely more educated, and probably more hopeful than I used to be. I think when you’re young and you get into a cause, you get frustrated with it within a few years, or six months.
Society, you’re a crazy breed.
Life moves fast. As much as you can learn from your history, you have to move forward.
You can go down the list of great artists and kind of understand that they are products of their environment. Whether it’s U2 or Henry Rollins or myself or Johnny Lydon, they’re gonna be products of their environment.
Wait a minute, yes, those are human heads.