Black Flag Quotes
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A gun in your hand makes a fool out of you. A gun in your hand makes a target out of me.
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What I'm saying is America has a job deficit because hundreds of thousands of jobs went elsewhere. Not because [Barack] Obama raised your taxes. He, in fact, lowered them. They are lower.
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Sometimes when you meet a musician you are a fan of, and he or she isn't the friendliest person, you walk away from the experience wondering if you will ever be able to listen to their music again.
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When people make my country look bad, I can't stand it.
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I had business experience. I had made my living designing and building electronic equipment. Basic business was not new to me, but the music business was completely new to me. I knew nothing about distribution, or any of those things.
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My understanding of first-degree murder is that premeditation needs to be proven.
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Americans are poorly served by their media, you know, for the war machine and propaganda machine and the global empire and they're poorly served by what they are being told is representative government.
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I lay off a lot modern fiction and only rely on living writers for non-fiction work.
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All of the things that the bible warns you of being: jealous, covetous, murderous, selfish, etc., that's kind of how humans are.
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Here in this moment we are beautiful, nocturnal creatures and our thoughts and words are jewels guarded by the moon.
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The truth is an anti-war statement in itself.
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For many years, my favorite director has been the Japanese giant Akira Kurosawa.
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Will punk rock ever die? Pal, if you have to ask it's dead to you.
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We know that in September, we will wander through the warm winds of summer's wreckage. We will welcome summer's ghost.
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I can die anytime I want. I wish I could do the same with life.
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Quite often people will get an animal which is probably not a good idea for them to have. They get it out of enthusiasm, there is a genuine interest, but sometimes they're not exactly prepared for what they're getting themselves into.
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What goes best with a cup of coffee? Another cup.
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Castle Face Records, run by The Oh Sees main man, Johnny Dwyer is always worth checking in with.
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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.
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Somewhere, someone isn’t impressed by your looks. Not all men jump through the hoops of your fire. You’re unbelievably boring to more people than you’ll ever know.
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There's a lot of mountain climbers trapped inside of bodies of people behind the counter at Kinko's.
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It took me until my teenage years to realize that I was medicating with music. I was pushing back against my stupid school uniform, instructors who called me by my last name and my classmates, who, while friendly enough, were not at all inspiring.
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America is off-the-hook gay. I will not go all Ann Coulter on you and say, 'Our gays are better than their gays,' but as far as countries go, we are in-your-face gay.
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To anger female voters in America is to tread on the tiger's tail. Women turn out in huge numbers, and they are well aware of how their bodies work and what they need.