"Basically, men are afraid of women and can’t handle the fact that they came out of the same thing they spend the rest of their lives trying to get back into."
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"My desires are foolish. The things I want are better kept to myself. The hand of silence is steady. The hard blade of silence is clean like night. The code is absolute. Silence is eternal and patient. Silence never makes a fool of itself like I have so many times."
"You can still function as a living ruin."
"I am well protected Too locked up Inside myself To get free"
"Friends come and go but 200lbs is always 200lbs."
"Most Americans are very cool people."
"If you really want to rebel against your parents: outearn them, outlive them, and know more than they do."
"I'm not interested in censorship. I like the First Amendment very much."
"I mean Black Flag happened. I was lucky. I don't think I could have put together something with one percent of that oomph on my own."
"Giving a good performance, giving it all is what it's all about. I love to perform."
"I don't know how much you follow current events. For some, there's not enough time to keep up on what's happening; for others, the news is too depressing, and peering too deeply fills one with boiling frustration all too quickly."
"My fear is naked, I'm naked and fearless, And my fear is naked..."
"Maybe I'm ego-tripping, but I don't find myself a particularly horrible person, so I don't think I need to hold back anything I think or feel."
"I was a very repressed young person. I wasn't good at school. I didn't fit in."
"Some music really does suck!"
"When people hold you in high esteem, it's very delicate relationship. When they meet you they're putting all their chips up. It's make or break."
"Black Sabbath - one of the world's universal language of music. I felt proud, for three or four minutes of my life combining my voice with Tony Iommi's guitar sound."
"In the summer of '84, you just couldn't escape the Born in the USA record."
"The scars will take me far, they always do."
"Without an education, you won't have a future."