I adhere to the philosophy, "I don't care who writes the laws, let me write the songs."

If I can't change the people around me, I change the people around me.

I came from a mother and father who always made me secure in my beliefs, and that's where the love came from.

Reflect each day on all you have to be grateful for and you will receive more to be grateful for.

Knowledge, wisdom, and understanding don't come out of the microwave. You got to keep moving forward because the evil doesn't sleep.

It's weak to speak and blame somebody else ...When you destroy yourself.

Culture is this thing that we can exchange among ourselves as human beings to knock aside our differences and build upon our similarities. Cultural exchange is the ultimate exchange.

I got a letter from the government the other day I opened and read it...it said they were suckers.

Our freedom of speech is freedom or death, We got to fight the powers that be!

I spread the message of hope and of unity. That's what gets me up in the morning. I can tell you what is wrong, but I can't tell you how to fix it. I'm a raptivist, not a politician. I deal in hope.

The best way to boycott is to build your own

If you try to forget it, nothing can erase a memory.

We are the anarchists your parents warned you about.

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

As we write, so we build: to keep a record of what matters to us.

When you're doing late night you're on the grind every night; you send someone to check on your mom.

Only when you dream it you can do it.

The best way to execute French cooking is to get good and loaded and whack the hell out of a chicken.

My iPod that was programmed by Peter Buck. It has 7,000 songs hand-picked for me by him.

We suffered for our music. Now, it's your turn.

I have a choice - I can either watch all the dailies, or I can follow the social media. I can't do both.