I think I prefer for the listener to decide for themselves what stuff means, because I always hate it when I think a song is about a horse, and then it turns out to be about a damn trip to France.

People like to say their songs are like children, but you gotta get those kids out there so they can make some money and pay the rent.

So maybe that’s what love means. Having the capacity to forgive the one who wronged you, no matter how deep the hurt was.

Step by step a mountain is conquered.

Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule.

It is better to live on the house top than to live in a house full of confusion.

If you go to Germany and get drunk, at some point you will try to look up Hitler in the phone book.

I built a net worth of more than $10 billion. I have a great, great company. I employ thousands of people. And I'm very proud of the job I did.

I come from a tradition - from the Jewish tradition, which believes in words, in language, in communication.

The kid who throws his spaghetti from the high chair onto his father's face, he's pushing back. He's sticking it to the man as he sees it. I like that. So that is punk.

There's this whole sense of judgment and who's right and who's wrong and who's moral and who's going to be punished.

Each person on this planet is inherently, intrinsically capable of attaining "dizzying heights" of happiness and fulfillment.