I'd rather give up my ears than my eyes, which might sound unusual for a musician.

Freedom isn't to do what you want at somebody else's expense.

I'm very open about my politics. I don't believe in any political party at all, none of them.

I'm no one's lap dog, you can't put me on a leash.

Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?

Punk became a circus didn't it? Everybody got it wrong. The message was supposed to be: Don't follow us, do what you want!

Just because people think politically different to you doesn't mean they're inhuman.

Sometimes the most positive thing you can be in a boring society is absolutely negative.

Obama's dense as a doorbell; not much going on up there - it's a wooden top.

You'd have to be daft as a brush to say you didn't like Pink Floyd.

I'm not this callous clown walking around laughing at life all the time. I've had some serious, serious problems in my life. But I've come out with a smile.

Having a child isn't a deal you strike with life. As I said: a child is a gift. And what remains after a child is gone is the memory of the years it was allowed to live. Not its death

We all have a responsibility to create a just society

Meaninglessnes s inhibits fullness of life and is therefore the equivalent to illness. Meaning makes a great many things endurable--perh aps everything.

Following my muse has worked out pretty well so far. I can't see any reason to change the formula now.

I don't paint, I hit.

I love the urgency of what we do. I like the battles that take place, the jousting.

Thy destiny is only that of man, but thy aspirations may be those of a god.

‎I am something that was. and I am something that not yet.

Ever since [Ronald] Reagan, they've been able to capture the message and an understanding - or persuade people of a certain understanding of what the nation is about and what's good for it.

I hate journalists. There is nothing in them but tittering jeering emptiness. They have all made what Dante calls the Great Refusal. The shallowest people on the ridge of the earth.