Home is the place where you feel happy.

There are things you break that can't be put back together again. And Kashmir may be one of them.

Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.

Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.

‘Respect for religion’ has become a code phrase meaning ‘fear of religion.’ Religions, like all other ideas, deserve criticism, satire, and, yes, our fearless disrespect.

In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.

Language upon a silvered tongue affords enchantment enough.

The whole story of migration and what that has done in interconnecting the planet is obviously something I've written about a lot.

faith without doubt is addiction

Tear your heart out of your chest. And hand it to God. There is no other healing. I swear, there is no other healing.

Now we’re guests in a faraway land nearly 40 years on. No trees, no cool breeze, no best friends. Only endless days spent in sending SMSs...

The Orphic Machine is the poem: a severed head with face turned away that sings.

Character imperfection is the important thing to keep them from being superheroes.

If your stress is related to another person, finding forgiveness - changing your thoughts and energy around that person - can lower stress.

Occasionally, when I get mad at a woman, I'll do some great, awful painting about her.

Today will never happen again. Don't waste it with a false start or no start at all.

[Too many musicians are] too involved with doing and not listening.

There are many ways to grow football-wise. You go slow or are pushed to go faster, otherwise you get left behind. For me, there would be trouble in stopping learning.

As our world becomes smaller, through a growing common culture, the true test of community will be our tolerance for our most profound differences and love for the most challenging among us.