Black Flag Quotes
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Just understand that the end began long ago We got here just in time Look All the squares in the sidewalks were already there All these strangers have more money than you do All the good riffs have been taken And everyone is so scared Murder is commonplace I don't even flinch at the gunshots outside my window I feel lonely without them
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People like Jefferson, Lincoln, Susan B. Anthony and M. L. K. are larger than life to me. I find myself staring at photographs of Lincoln almost in disbelief that he was a man who walked the earth and not merely some fiction writer's creation.
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I think more airtime should be given to Donald Trump and Orly Taitz. They should run for office together. They should open for Charlie Sheen.
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The talking shows allow me to come out of my cave and that's why those shows go on for so long. I hate walking off stage. Sometimes I walk off and I miss them as I'm walking off the stage. I wonder if they'll let me go another hour. That's why I do it: to communicate, to get points across.
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As a young person, I was on the road playing music, so I was getting new environments shoved in my face whether I wanted them or not.
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You never have to listen to a famous person, it's an elective.
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I want you bad like a natural disaster. You are all I see. You are the only one I want to know.
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I'm trying to be confrontational and direct. If I lack directness then I only have myself to blame because I lack the skills to make my point clear.
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I think it's very sad that the political landscape is so dotted with religious extremists who feel the need to infringe upon the lives of decent, free and harmless Americans who want nothing more than to be in love and to spend the rest of their lives together.
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When people make my country look bad, I can't stand it.
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My fear is naked, I'm naked and fearless, And my fear is naked...
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I got my heart broken. My spirit got shattered and mutilated. I will not be coming back from this. I don’t want to.
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When I write lyrics, it's only when I'm angry or hurt or sad. So lyrically it's never really easy going. And the music is always really intense.
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I like the sound of my voice, doesn't mean it's any good but I like it. The joke is that "all good singers like the sound of their own voice" so we'll go with that.
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The opportunity to write for the 'L.A. Weekly' has been one of the better breaks that has come my way in a long time.
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Unsurprisingly, Nelson Mandela had and still has many detractors.
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I think marriage is a boring and fault-ridden contractual obligation.
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I lack the skill to hold a story line for the length required for a novel or even a short story. I have never had an idea that could withstand a hundred thousand words, or even ten thousand words of rubber meeting the road.
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One person's disaster is another person's talking point.
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Everyone should have the right to go off and do their music or do their books. The people who are in the position to censor they're really not down to reality where that certain artists are coming from.
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When I am in Africa, I realize I don't know much, have not seen much, and there's a lot to be done.
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When you are young, there is so much ahead of you, it's like the Saharan desert. You can't even see across it.
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Creativity requires a lot of pass/fail/start again and it is often hard on the psyche.
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You can pass all the gun legislation you want. None of it will make me feel any more or less safe than I do right at this moment.