The same power is in every man, the one manifesting more, the other less; the same potentiality is in everyone.
Everything we look at and choose is some way of expressing how we want to be perceived.
I'm a born librarian with a sex drive
I never heard so many kids talk about just doing anything to be famous. I mean, yeah, fame is part of the deal when you're a kid and you think, I wanna go into music, but everybody that I knew was really doing it because of their love for it. I don't see so much of that anymore.
I'll place my love beneath the stars.
It always felt like you were trying too hard to look like the audience or something. That whole thing about the artistic integrity, which, of course, I've never bought into - with any artist. It's just not a real thing.
I have to take total control myself. I can't let anybody else do anything, for I find that I can do things better for me. I don't want to get other people playing with what they think that I'm trying to do.
Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.
I realize everybody wants what they don't have. But at the end of the day, what you have inside is much more beautiful than what's on the outside!
Our job in this life is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.
When I've met people that work in any walk of life they say, "If it wasn't for punk I wouldn't be doing it this way. " I think spiritually, it did change the world a lot.