Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.
Henry Rollins
Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good.
I have come to regard November as the older, harder man's October. I appreciate the early darkness and cooler temperatures. It puts my mind in a different place than October. It is a month for a quieter, slightly more subdued celebration of summer's death as winter tightens its grip.
Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own.
My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud.
It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.
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.
Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated.
You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.
Weakness is what brings ignorance, cheapness, racism, homophobia, desperation, cruelty, brutality, all these things that will keep a society chained to the ground, one foot nailed to the floor.
Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.
I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.
Everyone who knows me knows that I'm a hopeless romantic who listens to love ballads and doo-wop songs all the time.
Keep your blood clean, your body lean, and your mind sharp.
In winter, I plot and plan. In spring, I move.
When you are young, there is so much ahead of you, it's like the Saharan desert. You can't even see across it.
Don't do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul. When you go to work, work your ass off. When you hate someone, hate them until it hurts.
Pizza makes me think that anything is possible.
I am on until I am dead, like a light bulb.
If the Constitution was a movie, the Preamble would be the trailer, the First Amendment the establishing shot, the 13th the crowd pleaser and the 14th the ultimate hero scene.
Nothing brings people together more, then mutual hatred.
We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.
I am a veteran of the War on Christmas. I am just emerging from a battlefield strewn with dead trees and torn shreds of brightly colored wrapping paper.
Voting is completely important. People in America think democracy is a given. I think of it as an ecosystem, and what gets in the way of it is politicians and apathy.
There is not one single police officer in America that I am not afraid of and not one that I would trust to tell the truth or obey the laws they are sworn to uphold. I do not believe they protect me in any way.
I don't believe in fate or destiny. I believe in various degrees of hatred, paranoia, and abandonment. However much of that gets heaped upon you doesn't matter - it's only a matter of how much you can take and what it does to you.
When you start to doubt yourself the real world will eat you alive.
You must never lower yourself to being a person you don't like.
Maybe I'm just a psycho, and the stage is a better place to go than either the loony bin or somewhere else.
When people hold you in high esteem, it's very delicate relationship. When they meet you they're putting all their chips up. It's make or break.
Now, if someone wants to spit on me, I just roll up the window of my BMW 540i.
To this day, my haircut is the number two clippers, which I apply to myself every month.
I think that humans have a huge capacity to carry pain and sadness. There are things that haunt us our entire lives; we are unable to let them go. The good times seem almost effervescent and dreamlike in comparison with the times that didn't go so well.
If I lose the light of the sun, I will write by candlelight, moonlight, no light, If I lose paper and ink, I will write in blood on forgotten walls. I will write always. I will capture nights all over the world and bring them to you.
I'm not interested in censorship. I like the First Amendment very much.
I am an optimist because I want to change things for the better and I know that blood has to be spilled and disharmony and cruelty are necessary to do that.
I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.
I once asked Ozzy Osbourne, truly one of my favorite people in the world, if he was cool with singing Black Sabbath songs year after year, whether he was performing with Black Sabbath or out on a solo tour. He said it was great.
Questioning anything and everything, to me, is punk rock.
The first Van Halen album makes Johnny Rotten out to be what he really was and still is: a hairdresser.
One person's disaster is another person's talking point.
I like boring black and white films with subtitles. I'm basically a drip.
I mean I appreciate fan mail and that the people like what I am doing but I can't answer it. If I would answer 25 letters a day I would be just a guy answering mail and not an artist anymore.
It is only our humanity that can deliver us from the brutality of our achievements.
August, the summer's last messenger of misery, is a hollow actor.
With any advent in technology, any technological innovation, there is the good and the bad.
I have come to the conclusion that it's a waste of time to have too much pride in anything. Perhaps it's good to have a sense of duty, a jealous zeal to protect or improve, but pride ultimately is only that which stands vulnerable to offense and degradation.
Now and then, someone is able to look at an empty space, conclude it would be a great place to start a revolution, and bravely go forward.
If you listen to 'The Revolution Will Not Be Televised,' by Gil Scott-Heron, that album is dripping with rage.
I've been on 'Jay Leno,' and everyone likes Jay, but being on that show is a really boring afternoon. I sincerely like Jay, but I wouldn't want his job, because I'd have to interview Kathy Ireland, and there's nothing there I'd want to know.
