Everyone should be encouraged...in spiration and artistic freedom is the cornerstone of rock and roll.

Time plays a role in almost every decision. And some decisions define your attitude about time.

The only reason we wore sunglasses onstage was because we couldn't stand the sight of the audience.

The avant-garde makes more sense to me.

If you're all loaded up on love, you haven't got anywhere else to go.

I missed out on my teenage years. I led a sheltered life. I was practicing scales instead of going out there and playing football.

If I'm interested in what I'm doing, other people will be interested in it.

What I enjoy most about being on stage is that the natural instruments give you a greater freedom with texture. When you use natural instruments they have their own resonance.

I want to get lean and mean, keep it minimalist.

I learn from thinking about the future, what hasn't been done yet. That's kind of my constant obsession.

In cities like New York and Austin, there's much more of a social context for music than in other places.

To conform is to be average.

I've always been into sports and yoga and running. I actually study a martial arts self-defense program called Krav Maga. I can't quite say it's easy, but it's fun for me and I love to do it.

I decided on the spot that I would be an artist, and I assure you, it was no ordinary artist I had in mind.

Philosophy asks the simple question: What is it all about?

There are only two places in the world: over here and over there.

I'm the white Mohammad Ali.

There are two great rules of life: never tell everything at once.

Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, but according to his pleasure and interests. It is for this reason that most truths are nothing but prejudices.

You of the West are practical in business, practical in great inventions, but we of the East are practical in religion. You make commerce your business; we make religion our business.

We want more women players to take up chess. There are few participants at the national level and hope it will grow.