I had a great conversation with Trent Reznor. Trent said, "I'd have a sixpack, too, if I didn't write my own music!"

Hoodies are definitely street wear, no doubt. It's amazing how hoodies have become such an important staple in people's wardrobes.

I always played soccer in Adidas, but I always wore Nikes. I love street sportswear.

You get paid and you get venerated and worshipped for pretending to be somebody else.

We never considered ourselves part of the goth thing.

Peace on earth and good will toward men - that is something we need to work on. Like Nelson Mandela, we should learn from him.

I used to make all my clothes when I was in Southern Death Cult [the first incarnation of The Cult]. I still make things to wear on stage and I am involved with sketching, choosing fabric, cutting.

I celebrate the spirit of Christmas. It's the winter solstice celebration, rebirth and new possibilities.

Usually when I see Matthew [McConaughey] at a show, he'll be down in front with his shirt off with two beers just going mental, lit up and having an amazing time.

You come out of a working-class environment, you know, working-class kids always put them themselves together because it's one of the only things they had. You had control of your image.

Occasionally I like a really good pair of shoes. A pair of leather shoes from Gieves & Hawkes in England, Buckshot Brogue, they look really sick.

The love that follows us sometime is our trouble, which still we thank as love.

Everybody wants to get enlightened but nobody wants to change.

Truthfulness itself is almost medication, even when it’s served without advice or insight.

Insofar as we, critics of the black tradition, master our craft, we serve both to preserve our own traditions and to shape their direction. All great writers demand great critics.

It is a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up.

Don't put a question mark where God has put a period.

A man of faith does not bargain or stipulate with God.

God's goal is not to get what you want; it is to get you what you need.

Students who acquire large debts putting themselves through school are unlikely to think about changing society. When you trap people in a system of debt, they can't afford the time to think.

Everytime we say that god is the author of some phenomenon, that signifies that we are ignorant of how such a phenomenon was caused by the forces of nature.