Quotes

It was a major dream come true at last. In many respects, Jerusalem is a very modern and important story about people in a period of transition, with all the unrest that permeates society on the eve of a new century. The big life issues are at stake.

I don't even call them fans. I don't like that. They're literally just a part of my life; they're a part of my family. I don't think of them as on a lower level than me. I don't think I'm anything but equal to all of them. So yeah, they're basically all of my siblings.

In real life, I'm a really smiley person. I smile when I talk and I laugh.

I had a period in my life where I decided that I would never be bored again and that, if I had any free time at all, I would make plans, and I would always be doing things. It actually was great for a year or so, but then I lost all of my friends.

Pretty much my whole life, I've been a performer and have loved singing and writing songs in my room for my own ears.

I wrote my first song at 12 and remember someone asking, 'What were you going through at 12 that you could write about?' I get what you're saying, but 11, 12, 13 were the hardest years of my life. You learn everything. You learn how horrible things feel.

I feel like I write so that people can think of it as theirs. If my song is exactly about your life right now, then it is - I don't even want to say that it's mine, because it's yours.

My whole life, I've sung and listened to music, and since the beginning, I've had iTunes and used Apple Music for streaming.

You've got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body's sermon on how to behave.

Sports teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules, it teaches you to know what it feels like to win and lose-it teaches you about life.

There is no life for girls in team sports past Little League. I got into tennis when I realized this, and because I thought golf would be too slow for me, and I was too scared to swim.

I knew after my first lesson what I wanted to do with my life.

I like putting money back into what made my life, and tennis has been great to me.

Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle.

Minority is about being an individual. It's like you have to sift through the darkness to find your place and be that individual you want to be your entire life.

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.

Punk will never be dead to me. It's my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me.

When I signed that major-label contract when I was 20 years old. I did it because I wanted to play music for the rest of my life. That's every 20-year-old's dream - to do whatever the hell you want.

If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my life.

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.

My whole life, they said, 'Do not act. You need to get a college degree'.

If life's not funny, then it's just true - and that would be unacceptable.

We've got to use every piece of data and piece of information, and hopefully that will help us be accurate with our player evaluation. For us, that's our life blood.

I've danced one time in my life. It was the most mortifying experience I ever had.

One of the great regrets of my life is that I don't play piano.