I have heard people say that they felt closer to their parents after they have died. Maybe if I treat people as if they were dead, I could get along with them better.
Giving a good performance, giving it all is what it’s all about. I love to perform.
I know I was a generic dysfunctional child, but I think a lot of people are.
Anyone who wants to help me doesn’t. Anyone who wants to kill me might. Anyone who wants to love me better not.
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 think politicians get hamstrung by the nature of politics when the private sector can really do great things.
The month of November makes me feel that life is passing more quickly. In an effort to slow it down, I try to fill the hours more meaningfully.
Everything you do makes my body scream with loneliness.
There are religions and social and moral awareness in any society that gets passed immediately. Those human truths. All cultures address them.
I know you’ll never love me but maybe you’ll stay for awhile.
I like the idea of someone else’s love safely sealed in a song or a book.
I am well protected Too locked up Inside myself To get free.
Always knowing you’re going to die And until then knowing you’ve got to live.
And I love the hate mail I get, the unsigned, misspelled letters I get telling me to go back to Russia or wherever.
Questioning anything and everything, to me, is punk rock.
Youth is fleeting and life is short, you might as well strike hard. Anything else is just average.
I used to sit on the roof of the apartment where Jim Morrison used to write his early lyrics.
The only safety is in the middle of total misunderstanding and deception.
You don’t make me feel like you used to. That’s why I’m leaving That’s why people leave each other They come to their senses and get selfish again.
I would like to become a better photographer. I’m working on that.