I've always thought preaching to the converted is just kind of futile and silly.

You can be for something and still be damaged by it.

I'm lucky enough that people tend to agree a lot with what I say. But really if anyone in the band has a really strong feeling, it carries a lot of weight.

I'm more interested in writing about the personal stories of people. Sometimes I don't agree with them.

The road does not always bring out the best in people.

I feel like, as a people, we're sort of stumbling in the dark right now.

Paste may be the last great American music magazine left.

Racism is a worldwide problem.

A lot of the music that I grew up loving has a really political bent to it.

I dislike Bush as much as probably anybody on earth could, but having said that... It's not like I'm going to change anybody's mind.

I never want to be that guy spouting off my political views. I mean, they're pretty well known, and it certainly comes out.

What matters creative endless toil, When, at a snatch, oblivion ends the coil?

In life you get the choice, it depends on what you choose and how you live with the consequences to whether you win or lose!

And when you get down to it, Lily, that is the only purpose grand enough for a human life. Not just to love but to persist in love.

If we build more windows and fewer walls, we will have more friends.

I think the most interesting question is, why do you act? I act because I have felt in acting some of the most free moments of my life...I think it's also one thing that scares me the most.

I was not a politician.

To distract myself from thoughts of my father, i decided to check out the dead body.

From the port of ideas, not only the most clever ones put out to sea and conquer the world but also the most stupid ones do!

Introverts living under the Extroversion Ideal are like women in a man's world, discounted because of a trait that goes to the core of who they are.

Developing films with directors, developing films with actors, is a poor percentage play for a screenwriter.