I'd like to believe there are people who are good, I know there are good Christians and good people from every faith who just want what's best for humanity.

I don't hate religion, I try not to hate religion. I hate the terrible things that religion makes people do, and I hate the greed that comes from it.

Eventually, I thought that it's interesting to make some rules for yourself while you're working on one project so it sounds different from the other stuff you do.

I love America, and I love living here.

That's almost the best part, making the record cover.

Sometimes bigger cities, just because there's so much going on, people are a little more jaded.

I wish that I myself did have faith in God, that I had a religion, sometimes. But not always.

Licensing can be great. You get money for work that's already done. It's not a horrible thing to me, there's just some things I don't want to soundtrack.

I'm not trying to cut myself off from the rest of the culture by not licensing.

I rely on swearing just to communicate emotion, but I wanted to express the same feelings [in song] without using curse words.

...as I get older, I find myself insisting on my right to be philosophically sloppy.

Each man is the architect of his own fortune.

Each guy stamped the passport of my heart. “You’re worthy.” Stamp. “You’re enough.” “You have not failed completely.” Stamp, stamp.

We have become a nation of biblical illiterates.

I am not a man who looks for solutions in God or politics. If somebody else wants to do the dirty work and create a better world for us and he can do it, I will accept it.

The person I've always wanted to interview but never met was Richard Burton.

I'm going to continue to stand with the people that are being oppressed.

You obviously don't have to be a murderer to play a murderer or you don't have to be a dictator to play a dictator. So, you're an actor. You come up with whatever you come up with to play that part.

I just don't think it honors God to create mediocre art.

A man in love prefers his passion to every other consideration, and is fonder of his mistress than he is of virtue. Should she prove vicious, she makes vice lovely in his eyes.