I don't think there really is much of a left in America, certainly by European standards even the left is quite right wing here.

There are things you break that can't be put back together again. And Kashmir may be one of them.

Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.

Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.

‘Respect for religion’ has become a code phrase meaning ‘fear of religion.’ Religions, like all other ideas, deserve criticism, satire, and, yes, our fearless disrespect.

In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.

Language upon a silvered tongue affords enchantment enough.

The whole story of migration and what that has done in interconnecting the planet is obviously something I've written about a lot.

faith without doubt is addiction

Never give up on your dreams! When you’re good at something, and there’s love in what you do, passion will always bring success.

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

If you want to look young and thin on your birthday. Hang around a bunch of old fat people.

If you cannot solve it, it is not a problem - it is reality.

Is not where I live happily ever after, or who with. It's the fact that I live happily ever after.

I love words; they are the quoits, the bows, the staves that furnish the gymnasium of the mind.

To fill the shoes of rock 'n' roll, because of the family I have, is a really hard thing.

The past in the hands of historians is not what it was.

One thing I love about making an ensemble film is that you can have ten people come away from it with ten different messages.

I've been here 21 years, and I literally did walk up and down Music Row trying to break into the business. I felt very free to go into any publishing company.