This is my 25th year of being on stage. A lot of people who I kind of toed up to the starting line with are no longer in this position. I feel very, very lucky.
My father did not rock. He just earned and hated. Don't end up like this man.
The first Van Halen album makes Johnny Rotten out to be what he really was and still is: a hairdresser.
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.
In my bright, utopian future world, they will hand out college educations like cups of water at the end of the L.A. Marathon.
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.
The blues is losing someone you love and not having enough money to immerse yourself in drink.
I was happy to find out that when on tour, Dolly Parton doesn't use hotels but stays on her bus every night, to the point of having her buses shipped from Austria to Australia so she can tour the way she sees fit. I used one of her buses once - an honor.
I can't remember that I ever had just a minute of stage fright.
Young African-American males: Stop existing. It could get you killed.
For many years, I tried to make New Year's resolutions. I made lists and shot for great heights: I would show altruism and exert moral strength, patience and all those other great attributes.
I can only write about personal stuff, about my point of view.
I never thought about getting any tattoos removed.
If I hear, 'Be afraid of Tehran,' I'm like, 'I'd better go to Tehran.'
I am an employment hyena. I am happy to make a meal of what the lions leave behind.
I am neither pro- nor anti-gun. I am gun-conscious.
If I had to perform in a comedy club I would bomb; I would be trying too hard.
This is my own little rock theory: In my mind, Nirvana slayed the hair bands. They shot the top off the poodles.
You want to meet a bunch of really friendly people? Go to a Slayer concert. There'll be some real psychos there, but most of those people will take care of each other.
The public library system of the United States is worth preserving.
For me, returning to Los Angeles annihilates the memories of where I have just been with an astonishing speed.
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.
To our enemies all over the world who plan America's demise, please take my advice. Give up now. No matter what, you will lose. You will lose it all.
The kid who throws his spaghetti from the high chair onto his father's face, he's pushing back. He's sticking it to the man as he sees it. I like that. So that is punk.
I was in Pakistan in Islamabad when Bhutto was assassinated, and the next day, you know, there's just plumes of smoke everywhere. I mean, Islamabad is on fire.
I have had a number of less-than-enviable moments in my life when dealing with other people. I won't attempt to blunt that by saying I am not the only one.
I think self-reliance and self-responsibility and self-accountability will help you as a parent, a teacher, as a citizen as a friend.
It is very difficult to tell Americans that they can't do something.
I never thought I was right for TV or that TV was right for me.
Nothing brings people together more, then mutual hatred.
So, one way or another, I found myself in a few movies. I take it seriously when I'm on the set, but I don't take myself seriously as an actor.
One of the nice things about a favorite pop song is that it's an unconditional truce on judgment and musical snobbery. You like the song because you just do, and there need not be any further criticism.
It's easy for me to play bad guys because it's a very linear acting. Bad guys aren't empathetic. Being a bad guy is great because you're not friendly and you don't have to do much with your face.
The number of people who are actual supporters of Mr. Romney could very well be less than the Donner Party, whose members they sadly resemble in many ways.
There is no way you are going to be forgiven for blowing up a village and killing a bunch of people.
Maybe I'm just a psycho, and the stage is a better place to go than either the loony bin or somewhere else.