Black Flag Quotes
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When I die, the world dies with me. I'd really like to leave it better than how I found it and I'm doing what I can to effect that.
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In America, quite often, for people from a certain economic position two choices become very evident as to their adult life. One is crime, one is the military. And it is quite often that some people choose one or the other, their options not being as many as someone from a higher income.
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A man came up to me the other day and said he hadn't had a bite in weeks. So you know what I did? I walked by him like he didn't even exist.
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Life forgets me but will not let me forget Holds me down and tells me that I'm free.
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Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.
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Everything that I'm really about is being an individualist. I believe in individuality.
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I continually remind myself to live by a code. It's very important to me. I've got a bad temper.
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Rush Limbaugh makes money getting simpleminded people to feel good about their intellectually undernourished brain spasms. He's very good at it, and I scarcely believe a fraction of what he says.
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I always found the Chicago audience to be a smart, fast-moving, violent and cheerful lot, and it's always good to be back.
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Rock is ironic in that, up to a certain point, you can get better and better at it if you don't mind possibly looking more and more ridiculous.
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The blues is losing someone you love and not having enough money to immerse yourself in drink.
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I'm so burned out, the only person I can stand is myself. I'm the only one I would put through this. Wheels and wings, The ride is everything. I'm all I've got. I'm all I can take. Another day has destroyed a part of me. So far so good.
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There are lots of guns and action in my drawings, and part of that is just to make them more interesting. Because you can go through a whole film and it's mostly talking heads and little else until the action scenes, and they're usually violence or physical stuff. Same with baseball, or any sport. Except I find pitching and batting are visually very striking.
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We Americans are hard on almost everything. We are hard on our vehicles, our marriages and our heroes. Mostly, however, we are hard on ourselves.
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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.
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Enough Americans saw fit to give president Obama a second term. I don't think there will be many people keeping their Romney/Ryan bumper stickers on their cars.
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Everything you do makes my body scream with loneliness.
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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.
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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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I don't mind bees and think we are all the better for having them around. I like the taste of honey.
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Will punk rock ever die? Pal, if you have to ask it's dead to you.
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The truth is an anti-war statement in itself.
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Guns are part of the American identity.
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My unconditional sure thing is that I don't have one.