A piece of information can change a person. I'd hate to change the way I'm supposed to live the future.

If you want to be drunk, become drunk with an idea. If you want pleasure, have pleasure from the pursuit of your passion. If you want to be indoctrinated, then be so by the natural law of humanism.

If you take a little time, let's say three weeks off, after recording a song, and you listen to it every other day, you're just going to know eventually.

The word music is a convenient way to talk about what I'm interested in, but actually, in some ways, it's a limitation.

The world is a wheel always turning.

Neither this nation nor this party can afford a candidate so captive to the demands of the intolerant right that we end up re-electing a president of the incompetent left.

I think at the prospect of bringing children into the world, your mortality comes very much to the forefront, absolutely.

If we would have God in the closet, God must have us out of the closet. There is no way of praying to God, but by living to God.

I don't like credit cards. Let me triple underline that.

To me, no one has fully cracked the code on social recruiting yet.

I had a great education. From kindergarten to John Dewey High School in Coney Island, I am public-school educated.