I care about making music and I care about creating experiences for my fans with my music and my videos and my performances.

I'm not really a very social person. It exhausts me when I'm out.

Matter flows from place to place, and momentarily comes together to be you.

I want to make honest music and tell honest stories that hopefully reflect the thoughts and feelings other people have.

What puts my mind at rest is knowing I'm a person of integrity. I really do stand for what I say I stand for. I'm real!

Control is as much an effect as a cause, and the idea that control is something you exert is a real handicap to progress

The poetry of life must not be replaced with matter-of-fact prose.

I did a handful of photo shoots and I never made any money for it just because I was trying to build a portfolio. I decided that that's not what I wanted to do.

When people have expectations, you're going to make a lot of them upset - when in fact I'm not trying to represent anybody but myself.

Everyone has to learn to work with people - it's part of being an adult, too.

I'd rather have a lot of little donations than a couple big ones. That shows that people care and are giving what they can.

We ascribe to God. We don't add to Him.

Worry is a futile thing it's somewhat like a rocking chair Although is keeps you occupied it doesn't get you anywhere.

In addition to wreaking havoc on our bodies, anger close our inner door, making us feel isolated and distrustful, hindering communication.

Think on a 50-year scale, which is a much more natural time-scale for global warming. The US is right now spending about 200 million dollars annually on research into renewable energy.

I wish I could end every rap song I didn't like with a buzzer.

Part of the skill of saying no is to shut up afterward and not babble on, offering material for an argument.

The great god Ra, whose shrine once covered acres, is filler now for crossword puzzle makers.

...art is something subversive. It's something that should not be free. Art and liberty, like the fire of Prometheus, are things that one must steal, to be used against the established order.

Look out sinners because if you do not go to confession, confession will come to you. The Catholic Church in northern England has launched a mobile confession unit called the Mercy Bus.

Death is not only an unusually severe punishment, unusual in its pain, in its finality and in its enormity, but is serves no penal purpose more effectively than a less severe punishment.