I didn't grow up with my Kenyan family. I grew up in a small, conservative suburb of Chicago.

Paul Ryan's love for Rage Against The Machine is amusing, because he is the embodiment of the machine that our music has been raging against for two decades

A good song should make you wanna tap your foot and get with your girl. A great song should destroy cops and set fire to the suburbs. I'm only interested in writing great songs.

A musicians or artists responsibility is a simple one, and that is, through your music to tell the truth.

Music, I think, is best when it honestly explores personal demons, and it stirs around in the silt of the psyche to find out what's really there.

My music is made for the people who are willing to stand up to change this world themselves.

If aliens came down and challenged us to a Battle of the Bands to decide the fate of Planet Earth, I would feel very confident putting early Van Halen forward as our champion.

Bad presidents make for great music, and I'm gonna do my best to provide it.

When you wanna rock hard, children, lean on F#.

There's a lot of injustice in the world and it's what I sing about in my music and what I try to confront in my life as an activist.

Sacrifice and neon lights, Slaveships don't wait, Love many, trust few, And don't be late...

Compared to ecosystems and some species, corporations are very fragile entities indeed.

We are in this business, whether it be intelligence or the government, to protect freedom, democracy and liberty, not to violate that.

Beautiful loser, where you gonna fall? When you realize, you just can't have it all.

A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there.

The taming and domestication of religion is one of the unceasing chores of civilization.

Comfort and solace come about differently for different people.

I think the human mind is fascinating. I love figuring out why people are doing what they do.

My kids going to school and teachers denying my kids the grades that they should have once they found out that I was their father.

I started in movies in Mexico and started doing telenovelas in Mexico. American Family was the first thing I did in English.