All politicians should be required to drink Ayahuasca 10 times before taking office.

Any kind of consciousness that is not related to the production or consumption of material goods is stigmatized in our society today.

I don't believe that consciousness is generated by the brain. I believe that the brain is more of a reciever of consciousness.

If this is how science operates, by silencing those who express opposing views rather than by debating with them, then science is dead and we are in a new era of the Inquisition.

Science has often resisted new ideas and fought bitterly to prevent them coming on board.

People think I'm a freemason, and I'm not. People think I believe the end of the world is coming on 21 December 2012, and I don't.

You have to understand that we've had more than 40 years now of massively financed propaganda called the 'War on Drugs'.

I see myself as a journalist reporting neglected stories about our past and trying to bring rigor, reason and intuition to the quest.

Some people experience rare moments when everything they believe is challenged. Or at least shaken up. Those moments stay with them. Surprise, real surprise, is an exotic thing not soon forgotten.

By affirming your own gifts and accomplishments, you build your confidence and increase your ability to build a brighter future.

There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day.

I feel terrible that I once put too much emphasis on material prosperity.

It's scary when you get to a point where you write these songs that people like, and then you think, "Am I ever going to be able to write something better than that?"

I hate the thought of animals being killed just for our pleasure...

Self-conscious? Try a wig, a corset, a veil, a beard. Or cultivate shamelessness.

Involvement in public affairs is a legitimate use of celebrity

I think the colleges should be free to give athletes less than a full scholarship, no scholarship and more than a scholarship. And the athletes should be free to bargain.

Plurality is not to be posited without necessity.