Black Flag Quotes
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I like the idea of going out with a woman and not doing anything, and just eating dinner and talking, and that's cool, too. So, someone might look at me and say, "No way, man. He's just banging strippers." And I do that, but not all the time.
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For the last 30-plus years, I have been doing one long, uninterrupted improv.
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I'm most comfortable on stage.
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Adolescence is a plague on the senses.
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BULLLLLSHIT!!
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It is you who makes me see what I really am.
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As miserable as life may be I hold it pretty precious
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I'd rather do anything than make commercial art. I didn't go to school for art. Making art has certain advantages for me but they would never be in commercial direction.
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If I lose the light of the sun, I will write by candlelight, moonlight, no light. If I lose paper and ink, I will write in blood on forgotten walls. I will write always. I will capture nights all over the world and bring them to you.
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I grew up on the Bones Brigade as well. The very first skateboard video I saw was the Bones Brigade Video Show and I'd always valued the Bones Brigade and Powell Peralta as the ultimate in skateboarding.
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Trying to write music, be in a band and keep it all happening is one of the hardest, morale-destroying, heartbreaking things you will ever try to do - and that's when it's going well.
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Knowledge without Mileage is bullshit to me.
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I have never experienced anything like walking out onto the stage of an oversold venue and, before the first note is struck, realizing that there is not going to be enough oxygen for all of us.
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Back in the '80s, a lot of the images I used were from TV or from films on TV.
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A text conversation is a short exchange of often grossly truncated language that corresponds to a thought made all the more shallow by the process.
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When life hands you a lemon, say 'Oh yeah, I like lemons. What else you got?
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With any advent in technology, any technological innovation, there is the good and the bad.
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The rich survive and everyone else gets ready to work 2 1/2 to 3 1/2 jobs and what do you get? Blade Runner. Welcome to your science fiction. Your 21st century. I think that's where it goes. The rich get richer and everyone else... the middle class kind of starts dropping lower and lower.
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Imagine a 15-year-old kid saying, 'I have two moms - it's cool.' I don't fear that at all.
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Now you see how you are, the wisdom mixed in with all the scars.
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When I am in Africa, I always have the feeling that it's where everything started. When I am in New York, I know it is where everything ended up.
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Consumerism is at once the engine of America and simultaneously one of the most revealing indicators of our collective shallowness.
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I will never say the things that I want to say to you. I know the damage it would do. I love you more than I hate my loneliness and pain.
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Everyone who knows me knows that I'm a hopeless romantic who listens to love ballads and doo-wop songs all the time.