Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.

In the good old days when I was a senator, I was my own man.

If it’s illegal to rock and roll, throw my ass in jail!

I can relax with bums because I am a bum. I don’t like laws, morals, religions, rules. I don’t like to be shaped by society.

I listen to my old records and I think, ‚How did I ever get on the radio?‘

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Memory… is the diary that we all carry about with us.

I look at other people’s lives, and some people feel like they’re too old to play with toys. But I still go through the toy section at the store, ‚cause there were toys that I wanted when I was little that I couldn’t have. So I still get them.

Lovers often invest their first meetings with retrospective significance, as if to try to conjure the elements of the numinous out of the stubborn witness of the everyday.

You see, rebellion, and the disobedience it causes, keeps us from having the power of God that’s available to us as Christians.

I thought it was magic to be able to catch something identically on tape and then be able to play around with it, run it backwards; I thought that was great for years.

I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.

The old Dodgers were something special, but of my teammates overall, there was nobody like Pee Wee Reese for me.

But I did ‚Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure.‘ They made a cereal out of it, so once you’ve had a cereal, it doesn’t get much more surreal than that. Surreal cereal.

Since the beginning, it was just the same. The only difference, the crowds are bigger now.

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.

All things truly wicked start from innocence.

Whenever I think of the past, it brings back so many memories.

I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren’t consumed by technology and television.

There is in me an anarchy and frightful disorder. Creating makes me die a thousand deaths, because it means making order, and my entire being rebels against order. But without it I would die, scattered to the winds.

I used to really love Fiend, but he stopped. He just stopped. Every time he had a project, every project – ‚There’s One In Every Family,‘ ‚Street Life‘ – I had to have them. And he just stopped. And that was disappointing, ‚cause that was my favorite rapper at one time.

We can not play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent.

Some of my foster families used to send me to the movies to get me out of the house and there I’d sit all day and way into the night. Up in front, there with the screen so big, a little kid all alone, and I loved it. I loved anything that moved up there and I didn’t miss anything that happened and there was no popcorn either.

It’s true that I’ve never had a burning desire to rebel against my parents.

Writers are always writing about infidelity. It’s so dramatic. The wickedness of it, the secrecy, the complications, the finding that you thought you were one person but you’re also this other person. The innocent life and the guilty life. My God, it’s just full of stuff for a writer. I doubt it will ever go out of fashion.

The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.

Going home helps the content.

When the first big paycheque with ‚Dumb And Dumber‘ hit, I went: ‚Gosh, I wonder if this will affect my performance. Will I do a take and think, was that worth $7 million?‘ But that never happened. If anything, it made me rebel against that thing when people who get rich start playing it safe.

It’s true the punk fashion itself was iconographic: rips and dirt, safety pins, zips, slogans, and hairstyles. These motifs were so iconic in themselves – motifs of rebellion.

Everyone my age probably grew up listening to the ‚perreos‘ of Plan B.

I remember coming to New York in 1974 to do a play here called ‚Equis.‘ And I remember the first morning getting up and walking around the streets, and I thought, ‚I’m home.‘ I felt really at peace here.

Rebellion is what you make of it. When you’ve been on a tour bus for two months straight, and then you get in your car and drive wherever you want, that can feel rebellious.

Akron, Ohio, is my home. It will always be remembered. Akron, Ohio, is my life.

You can rebel in different ways. Civil disobedience is rebelling. As long as it’s peaceful, of course.

I find rebellion packaged by a major corporation a little hard to take seriously.

In my day, there were no vet video games.

Oh, 1994, April 27. There won’t be a day like that ever again. I mean, the sky was blue, with a blueness that had never been there before.

I’ve always liked older ladies, ever since my mother would have B’nai B’rith at our house.

Artists are losing the choice to use film. People have a love for it – the grain, how it feels, the texture.

When you’re a little kid, you don’t see color, and the fact that my friends were black never crossed my mind. It never became an issue until I was a teenager and started trying to rap.

If you’ve heard this story before, don’t stop me, because I’d like to hear it again.

Sometimes, when I see my granddaughters make small discoveries of their own, I wish I were a child.

‚9 to 5,‘ that little song, that little story, just won’t ever end. Just like ‚I Will Always Love You,‘ it just keeps comin‘ back, popping up its head in one way or another.

I grew up listening to the Police, I grew up performing in bars, singing Police songs.

I don’t dislike any of my exes. If I took time to form a relationship, it’s gonna hurt when we move on, but are you puttin‘ White-Out over all that beautiful time together? That was real time in your life. It’s connected to where you are today.

I was adored once too.

I really miss being able to blend in with people.

I can’t remember what made my dad take us karting for the first time, I can’t remember really. I was into motorsport by then and I knew everything, and every driver, it was around 2009, 2008. That’s when I first properly knew about Formula One. Those were the days.

Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived.

The things hardest to bear are sweetest to remember.

I grew up with J. Edgar Hoover. He was the G-man, a hero to everybody, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation was the big, feared organization. He was ahead of his time as far as building up forensic evidence and fingerprinting. But he took down a lot of innocent people, too.

Every time I come to Europe, I’m just as excited as I was my very first time, which was many, many years ago. I love that part of the world, and I especially love the fans.

I like today and perhaps a little future still, but the past is really something I’m not interested in. So, as far as I’m concerned, I like only the past of things and people I don’t know. When I know, I don’t care because I knew how it was.

Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.

In my heart, I’m just a kid from the council houses. I can remember the old cottage and my dad coming round with the tin bath. I’m not a rich man.

A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.

Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.

Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.

We are the people our parents warned us about.

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.

I am not a yachting person, by nature, but I have just enough experience on the sea under sail to feel a certain nostalgia for it when I see a big white racing yacht heeled over at cruising speed on the ocean, and I can still tie a mean bowline knot on just about anything in less than 10 seconds.