Tim Armstrong:

Woke up in the bushes 6:30 Tuesday morning
With a unopened Heineken a head that was burning
For 7 years I walked down the same path
Dreams of being loved was all I ever had 

Mike Ness:

And from town to town I roam
Take me so very far from home
And I woke up one summer day and I fell in love
And the times have changed, my friend
I’ll be here to the bitter end
And I’m here to make my stand
With a guitar in my hand

Joe Strummer:

“And so now I’d like to say - people can change anything they want to. And that means everything in the world. People are running about following their little tracks - I am one of them. But we’ve all got to stop just following our own little mouse trail. People can do anything - this is something that I’m beginning to learn. People are out there doing bad things to each other. That’s because they’ve been dehumanised. It’s time to take the humanity back into the center of the ring and follow that for a time. Greed, it ain’t going anywhere. They should have that in a big billboard across Times Square. Without people you’re nothing. That’s my spiel.”

Johnny Cash:

Ah, I’d love to wear a rainbow every day, 
And tell the world that everything’s OK, 
But I’ll try to carry off a little darkness on my back, 
‘Till things are brighter, I’m the Man In Black 

Brian Setzer:

This cat’s on a hot tin roof
Drinkin’ that whiskey, 96 proof
Don’t need no doctor, don’t feel no pain
My legs are just two steps ahead of my brain

Pete Doherty:

Said he was your teacher
Taught you so true and so wise
Now you know more than your teacher
I see nothing but cool self-regard in your eyes

Lemmy Kilmister:

I’m in love with rock ‘n’ roll, satisfies my soul
If that’s how it has to be, I won’t get mad
I got rock ‘n’ roll, to save me from the cold
And if that’s all there is, it ain’t so bad

Jamie T:

Cradle to the grave, I know we always misbehave, people latch down and then they rain on our parade.
Girls we love leave when we want them to stay, like today, remember, what shall we say?
When there’s no one left to fight, boys like us don’t shine so bright,
Soon as I see the dust settle, let’s go out and find some trouble!

Henry Rollins:

Don’t do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul. When you go to work, work your ass off. When you hate someone, hate them until it hurts. 

Brian Fallon

Like Poor Mr. Pitiful, I can’t turn you loose
You move like a dream I had, woke up sweating in my room
But your Mama’s got plans, and your Daddy’s aim is true
But she never understood that it ain’t no good
and Papa never heard the Cool.

Fat Mike:

I might be an adult but I’m still a minor at heart.
OK my liver is my senior part.
But that’s a part you can trade in.
When your band has been a band longer than the Ramones,
And critics coin you “the punk Rolling Stones”
That’s when you know this is for life.