I still write poetry from time to time, but my whole life is so music-oriented at this point that it's hard for me to even think about having other hobbies.

My idea of a good hit is when the victim wakes up on the sidelines with train whistles blowing in his head... I like to believe that my best hits border on felonious assault.

I like to believe that my best hits border on felonious assault.

People quickly forget that people are people.

I like Ministry, but I'm probably never going to make a song that sounds like Ministry.

The fact that I fell into this seemed more like a stroke of good fortune than hard work. Not to say that I didn't work hard, but it wasn't like, "I'm going to be a musician."

I don't place too much importance on words. It's always the last thing I do because I'm definitely more interested in mood.

I was a very private person. All of a sudden, to see myself all over the internet and be like, "Oh god, do I want people to even hear this stuff?"

I make the music that I make because that's what naturally comes to me.

It always felt like I had to be a realist.

I did a lot of writing when I was in college, and that's what I thought I wanted to do; saying that I wanted to be a writer seemed more reasonable than saying I wanted to be a musician.

My world was the size of a crayon box, and it took every colour to draw her

Joy is inexplicable peace that comes from within.

We of Africa protest that, in this day and age, we should continue to be treated as lesser human beings than other races.

Though my heart is filled with feelings I want to convey You see, I can't express them in words If I had not met you I wouldn't even have such an embarrassing pain

Give because you love to give - as the flower pours forth its perfume.

If you can't be a highway, then just be a trail, If you can't be the sun, be a star; It isn't by size that you win or you fail- Be the best of whatever you are.

We need to strengthen our analytic capacity in Washington, we need to centralize the anti-terrorism effort

...it is impossible for a genuine people's revolution in any country to win victory without various forms of help from the international revolutionary forces.

It's definitely an influence, I mean how can you not say you are influenced to play rock.

There was the torture of sermons, and that not a slight one, for I was very fond of them.