Taking daily showers and always being there when I need them.

Deep and complex thoughts delivered with a wicked sense of humor.

It's important to give a better country to your children, but it is more important to give better children to your country.

I don't know any songwriter like that. I'm unaware of the current debate about separating the art from the artist. It's news to me. Maybe it's an academic thing.

I was trying to put a sexy element into punk because that’s one thing that was missing from it.

I nearly lost my leg and things like that, my life and my leg, you know? So (laughter) yeah, so gradually through the '90s, early 2000s, I was gradually trying to get off drugs, really. That's what I was doing, you know? I'm glad I'm like this today because I wouldn't be here talking to you. I would be probably either dead, in prison or gone crazy.

Yeah, well, he died of too much of all the right things.

I’m the sexy sexagenarian. Then I’m gonna be the sexy septuagenarian, ha ha!

I was trying to put a sexy element into punk because that’s one thing that was missing from it.

Ever since I saw The Beatles in 1962-63 I started to dream about being in a group. Being on stage, in a group, writing your own songs, it just seemed like they were having a ton amount of fun and there was this huge music explosion.