I've been obsessed with stopping people from blowing each other's brains out since I was ten.

Action is the antidote to despair.

You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.

You may not know it, but at the far end of despair, there is a white clearing where one is almost happy.

I went to jail for 11 days for disturbing the peace; I was trying to disturb the war.

I think music has the power to transform people, and in doing so, it has the power to transform situations - some large and some small.

The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.

I've never had a humble opinion. If you've got an opinion, why be humble about it?

I have hope in people, in individuals. Because you don't know what's going to rise from the ruins.

As long as one keeps searching, the answers will come.

Someone had to change the world. And obviously I was the one for the job.

Money is not my definition of success

A fool despises good counsel, but a wise man takes it to heart.

One regret I have is that I did not learn more about what was happening very early, so that I could have tried to stop people from engaging in illegal activities.

How much can a crown be worth, when a crow can dine upon a king?

Your attitude is everything, and it determines how you experience every aspect of your life

I love a massage. I'd go every day if I could.

A bookshop is powder-magazine, a dynamite-shed, a drugstore of poisons, a bar of intoxicants, a den of opiates, an island of sirens.

Faith without thankfulness lacks strength and fortitude.

I believe that music is another form of news. Music is another form of journalism to me. So I have to cover all the areas.

Liberalism is a series of grievances in addition to everything else that it is.