I feel like, as a people, we're sort of stumbling in the dark right now.

You can be for something and still be damaged by it.

I'm lucky enough that people tend to agree a lot with what I say. But really if anyone in the band has a really strong feeling, it carries a lot of weight.

I'm more interested in writing about the personal stories of people. Sometimes I don't agree with them.

The road does not always bring out the best in people.

Paste may be the last great American music magazine left.

I've always thought preaching to the converted is just kind of futile and silly.

Racism is a worldwide problem.

A lot of the music that I grew up loving has a really political bent to it.

I dislike Bush as much as probably anybody on earth could, but having said that... It's not like I'm going to change anybody's mind.

I never want to be that guy spouting off my political views. I mean, they're pretty well known, and it certainly comes out.

Everybody is ignorant, Just on different subjects.

My name is Winter Kim. Today I killed a man. Soon I hope to kill another.

Why is it that so many people start to value money so much that they trade in most of the hours and years of their life in order to get it?

To discover strategy is to fulfill mandate

Faith is developed in a setting where we cannot see ahead.

Tim O'Brien's book about Vietnam, The Things They Carried, has won every award, is studied in college and is considered to be definitive. But it's fiction.

Rap is just somebody getting something off his chest. That's all it is.

I'm just looking always for characters that change, because I want to get better, as an actor and as a person.

Isn't the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn't it our responsibility to bring this about?

I think the '60s were an extraordinary time. I feel bad for the kids today who missed this wonderful confluence, which was simultaneously a confluence of the global and the mythological.