I'm an optimistic agnostic. I think the second we die, within a matter of seconds, everybody else arrives, and that's the party, and you live your hell on earth.

At the end of the day, if you follow the music, it'll take you on a really, really great journey

Be yourself. Unless you have the option to be Batman, then always be Batman.

We work super hard to not have to work

If you start planning too far ahead, the next thing you know you forget you're living today

All my religious beliefs are based on Star Wars.

I started playing bass for the same reason everyone else does – I’m a lousy guitarist.

Happiness is a road traveled, not a destination.

Music's awesome, it's the closest thing we have to magic.

It's no use analyzing your life the whole time. Those analyses won't help you when you're dead

There isn't an audience in the world that Billie Joe can't command.

Bear in mind that humility is not timidity.

Until there is no longer the possibility of sadness, of isolation, there can be no gravity. We all float by, rootless, taking clumsy astronaut steps and calling it progress.

Fear that man who fears not God.

Human society has dense borders - economic, religious and cultural - inculcated from an early age. We hate change.

I don't have to get up in the morning and go beat up my body like I used to. I don't have to be out there in August in 108 degree weather down in Texas.

Money is just the poor man's credit card.

The model of a composer.

What I’ve learned through my meditation is a sense of equanimity, a sense of all things being equal.

Even if certain rogue countries do things we wish nobody did, it doesn't necessarily mean that their foolishness should justify our following suit.

Philosophy and the arts are but a manifestation of the intelligible ideas that move the public mind; and thus they become visible images of the nations whence they emanate.