I give everybody the benefit of the doubt. Anything you get into, you should research it and figure its roots and try to really be a real strong part of it.

I focus more on the music and my message; I'm not a party type of guy.

I'm not better then anyone because of what I do, who I am and where I come from.

If you really want to be part of something and you have that much passion towards it, you'll know enough to research it and find the history of it; and history is so important, history is everything.

To me, the lyrics mean more then the music, and that's the way it should always be.

People don't understand what term "selling out" means. To me selling out means if I were to stop doing this and go work for McDonald's then I would sell out.

We were all anti-Reagan, we were all politically-aware, we were all anti-war and things like that. These days a lot of the newer bands don't even really talk about that sort of stuff anymore.

To breathe, to breathe is nothing more than confirmation of the existence of your soulwhether you believe it or not, whether you live or cease to fight

In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.

At the punch-bowl's brink, let the thirsty think, what they say in Japan: first the man takes a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes the man!

Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body.

Dead men are not friends to living men, and give them no gifts. (Ghan-buri-Ghan, of allies during war)

I don't intend to die.

The full weight and mystery of your art rests upon your relationship to your subject matter.

Cooking might be the most important factor in fixing our public health crisis. It's the single most important thing you can do for your health.

One morning, one of us ran out of the black, it was the birth of Impressionism.

I have always looked on my businesses not just as money-making machines, but as adventures that can, I hope, make people better off.