It's okay to be a loser, it just depends on how good you are at being one.
You can't change the wind but you can set your sails.
To do something that you feel in your heart that's great, you need to make a lot of mistakes. Anything that's successful is a series of mistakes.
βThe day you become old is the day you're not looking for new experiences anymore.
L'esercizio rende perfetti, ma nessuno Γ¨ perfetto, quindi perchΓ© esercitarsi?
The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids.
I approach playing acoustic guitar more of as a percussive instrument. It's fragile. I don't have a lot of finesse when it comes to my guitar playing.
What annoys the hell out of me is the arrogance of some people. They don't even listen to our music, they decided in advance that they don't like it.
I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in Spanish. I'd like to be a brain surgeon.
I'm a father. It isn't just my life any more. I don't want my kid finding bottles in the house or seeing his father completely smashed.
Moshing and broken glass just don't go together.
There are a lot of bands who claim to be punk and they only play the music, they have no clue what it's all about. It's a lifestyle. It's not about popularity and all that crap.
What is going on in America is extreme. The youth cult, they worship youth so much it's almost paranoid. And LA is the Mecca of it all; they're taking it to the hilt.
If you have children, you don't want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It's just not good.
Punk will never be dead to me. It's my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me.
If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my life.
I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman.
The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason a small town is called a small town: It's because not many people want to live there.
If journalists ask you again and again about the same bands, you'll end up saying you hate them just because you're so fed up with being asked all those stupid questions.
Formats are constantly changing, and there are really no rules for the way you put your records out anymore.
