"I think it's good to be a little more fearless in saying what you feel. In not being scared of the repercussions of that."

"I started playing guitar at, like, 12 or 13 and just rock bands mostly. I had a punk rock band and hard core bands and all that."

"My dad was a doctor, but he was just always, like, going from hospital to hospital for some reason."

"I was in bands, but they were punk bands, and you plug in the guitars, you turn them up really loud, you've got four or five other people on stage with you, you've got some protection from when they throw lighters. You can always hide behind the lead singer or the bass player."

"Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment."

"Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance."

"It is a quiet truth that the moral compass points true only when freed from the magnetism of personal gain."

"The hypothesis of surviving intelligence and personality - not only surviving but anxious and able with difficulty to communicate - is the simplest and most straightforward and the only one that fits all the facts."