The blues is losing someone you love and not having enough money to immerse yourself in drink.
Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good.
Don’t do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul.
So many Americans, for one reason or another, they watch the news and it doesn’t really give them the idea of the world. Or they don’t read or travel. They have no idea that America is part of the world and not the world itself.
For me, speaking to anyone – on a stage, in an elevator – I am looking for impact and connection. The same goes for writing.
I get tired of talking when I want to be silent.
People are best on records and books because you can turn them off or put them back on the shelf.
The world’s a better place since I chose music.
I’m usually busy – if you call me at the house, I get about four phone calls there a year – I’m usually running around the house with a pen in my mouth holding onto something, folding it, or doing something to it, and it’s always a bad time.
Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which medium.
I’ll never forget how the depression and loneliness felt good and bad at the same time. Still does.
Nothing brings people together more, then mutual hatred.
There’s a lot of mountain climbers trapped inside of bodies of people behind the counter at Kinko’s.
I believe that when the body is strong, the mind thinks strong thoughts.
I don’t mean to be arrogant and I really appreciate my fans but talking about what I am doing is not something I’m good at. I do what I do and that’s it. I want to get back to my work and do more of it instead of talking about it.
To this day, my haircut is the number two clippers, which I apply to myself every month.
I’m not trying to amass people in the streets. I just want them to be more aware.
In the theory of evolution there is no talk of God and no Bibles are used. They’re not looking for higher powers, extraterrestrials, or anything else that could be found in the science fiction section, because they are not dealing with fiction.
I’ve made some great mistakes in my life, but, you know, they were honest mistakes.
Joe Strummer, Johnny Rotten, and Ian MacKaye were all people who really made me see things differently.