You know honestly I think Simon prepared me for the critics. Simon really prepared me for a lot of things they are saying. It just rolls off my back.

Gossip is called gossip because it’s not always the truth.

The most boring thing in the world? Silence.

I did a book signing when we were in New York the day before yesterday. A lady came through and she was just weeping, and said, ‘I wish this would have been brought out sooner,...

I dropped out of school in the 11th grade because there was no purpose in it for me. I’m not proud of this, and I’m not trying to promote it.

The Beatles were a pop group, but when you actually listen to the tracks, they were very rude about the way they went about things.

If you love god, burn a church.

Punk is musical freedom. It’s saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster’s terms, ‘nirvana’ means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that’s pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.

Shock is still fun. I won’t ever shut the door on it.

I try to do as many stunts as they’ll let me do. I think it’s important for an audience to feel that the actor’s really doing it.

I just hope that our fans are people who are inspired by music, and just use our music as a background or inspiration for whatever it is they do.

While I recognize in the back of my mind that I am an occasionally brilliant guitar composer and arranger, innovator and player.

But I think beautiful is simple and elegant, like a ballad with simple harmony.

I tend to eat what I want, which probably isn’t good.

I couldn’t begin to name names… in general I have found racers to be some of the most competitive people on the planet… and some of the nicest as well.

You have to know when to strike and when to retreat.

I haven’t read anything but regurgitated rumors. Nothing new, and nothing true.

Everything is a battle with this band.

I’d like to do a Christmas album. I’ve never done a Christmas album.

I mean, as long as it doesn’t have a bra attached, guys can take a risk and wear stylish things that went out of style 30 years ago. As things go around, they come around.

After moving to England I did some recording and eventually formed an English band, this was together for quite a few years with only a keyboard replacement. The band had no name, just my name.

I played in the percussion section 4th grade through high school – snare and timpani mostly.

I had a band in St. Louis. By then, things that influenced me were the first Stones albums, the first Byrds albums, later the Velvet Underground.

The only time I have problems is when I sleep.

Mr. Janet Reno? I think Mr. Janet Reno… I think he’s one of the best hunting dogs in the world.

God isn’t dead – he’s just missing in action.

Nigeria is a West African nation of over 100 million energetic people. It is endowed with lots of natural resources but lacks human resources.

I went from 118 pounds to 135 pounds in a few months. But, I still didn’t know anything about food.

What I’ve learned is that it’s okay to take from heroes, such as Debussy, but it has to be filtered through my own personality so that ultimately it’s me.

The people need to feel the music.

Fortunately, artists can live off their works, if you’re creative at how you do it. If you just depend on the videos and the radio, you’re at a loss.

With sincere modesty, if there is such a thing, I have never thought of legacy at all. I am always grateful if people like what I have done. A legacy is something no one can...

It wasn’t until ’94 when I tried to commit suicide that I realized that it wasn’t about the money.

As you stopped to say hello, oh, you wished me well, you couldn’t tell that I’d been crying over you.

Had an awesome time. You tell me to show up and all I have to do is drink beer, play guitar all day and I can lift weights and you’re going to pay me for...

Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want.

And if it’s not there – if that little melody is not in my head, or if I just don’t really feel like picking up the guitar – I just don’t do it.

I say there’re no depressed words just depressed minds.

I’m speaking for all of us. I’m the spokesman for a generation.

I can’t believe this is happening to me. The weirdest thing is it was just a dream, and now it’s actually real. It’s hard to believe sometimes.

I was just a bumpkin. Just a country bumpkin. I had just come to New York from Virginia. Or was it Baltimore?

Whatever is about you that is translated into your art, that’s gonna keep you completly original and fresh and I just think that, that’s just the best advice I can give, to an artist creatively.

Every drummer that had a name, had a name because of his individual playing. He didn’t sound like anybody else, So everybody that I ever listened to, in some form, influenced my taste.

We signed an amazing deal with 100 percent artistic control simply because when we signed it Nirvana were at the height of their fame.

No, it was a company called CRASH. They’re a very hot ad company in England. A very commercial ad company, one of the biggest, does all these commercials.

I just went to Harvard a little while, because I graduated from Armstrong High School in Washington and then I went up there but I didn’t stay that long because I went into show business.

I love home. I’ll stay up there for days on end, I won’t even go down the driveway to look for the mail.

If I couldn’t do it, then I’d be defeated. I’ve got the tools to do it. I never did question my tools.

The songwriter mustn’t fall in love with his own song. If it doesn’t belong, he can’t push it into a show. Let him save it; maybe it’ll fit in another show.

For a while after the rape, I was afraid of my own sexuality, because I got raped right about the time when I started developing physically.