Does defending liberalism leave you friendless and perhaps wondering about your breath?

A protest song is a song that's so specific that you cannot mistake it for bullshit.

America is two Mack trucks colliding on a superhighway because all the drivers are on amphetamines.

In such ugly times, the only true protest is beauty.

One good song with a message can bring a point more deeply to more people than a thousand rallies.

And if there's any hope for America, it lies in a revolution, and if there's any hope for a revolution in America, it lies in getting Elvis Presley to become Che Guevara.

Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt.

The fortunes of the entire world may well ride on the ability of young Americans to face the responsibilities of an old America gone mad.

It's always the old to lead us to the war. It's always the young to fall.

Love is a rainbow curving down from the sky, falling crystals of color, shades of warm that never die.

The truest protest is beauty.

I feel the terror of idleness, like a red thirst.Death isn't just an idea.

The idea of the original had no place.

I think you should always bear in mind that entropy is not on your side.

What your heart desires is not too good to be true. It is good enough to be true.

Rags, which are the reproach of poverty, are the beggar's robes, and graceful insignia of his profession, his tenure, his full dress, the suit in which he is expected to show himself in public.

Singing in Gaelic is very, very natural to do. I think lends itself very much so to being sung.

Trouble can always be borne when it is shared.

I enjoy the videos with the sound off, where you can look at the belly buttons and everything. Really some pretty girls, but I don't know about the music.

Belief is half of all healing. Belief in the cure, belief in the future that awaits.

We keep passing unseen through little moments of other people's lives.