Believe me, the library is the temple of God. Education is the most sacred religion of all.

When you walk through a bad neighborhood, you don't want a poodle by your side. You want a Rottweiler.

Life is too short to have anything but delusional notions about yourself.

I'm forbidden fruit. Once you go to certain households, mommy doesn't want you to see that dirty man who sticks his tongue out and spits out blood and all that stuff.

Rock is about finding who you are. You don't necessarily have to play your instrument very well at all. You can just barely get by and you can be in a rock band.

There’s an old adage that says that money is the root of all evil. Bullshit. Lack of money is the root of all evil.

The death of rock was not a natural death. Rock did not die of old age. It was murdered.

In time of war, if you go through a bad neighborhood, I don't want a little French poodle, I want a Rottweiler on my hands.

James Bond has a license to kill, rockstars have a license to be outrageous. Rock is about grabbing people's attention.

It's hard to see your destination when you're focused on the cracks in the sidewalk.

When you really think about it, I'm not delusional enough to think that what I do is important to life as we know it on this planet. No. But neither is what you do.

Entrepreneurial capitalism takes more people out of poverty than aid.

We are the next we.

We shouldn’t have a bunch of politicians, a majority of whom are men, making health care decisions on behalf of women.

Anyway, we had a blast, and the movie [the Ghost Team] turned out really, really funny.

The more incompetent one feels, the more eager he is to fight.

True preaching is the sweating of blood.

We must hold the Bible in one hand and the newspaper in the other.

Professional competitions are overrated.

There are plenty of good Indian writers in English, and none of us feel we are carrying the burden of being a poster boy.

Ive spent my whole life working in a medium that was regarded with contempt largely because of historical reasons.