I wanted to have the strongest band. I was always looking for the strongest characters.

The past can be changed by the future.

Rock saved me. You can break drums and scream out loud - if you do that in the street you get arrested.

A lot of things inspire me - especially pain.

If you really believe and really make a commitment, anything can happen.

I'm going to quit music. Then the government of Japan asked me to write a piano concerto - that was an offer I couldn't refuse, so that brought me back to music again.

Everything is legit onstage. You can go crazy. I can express my anger. I can cry. Whoa, this is the coolest place!

If I die, I'm going to die onstage.

If you get stuck to the committed path then... this wall has to be.. KNOCKED DOWN!!

A girl doesn't notice unfairness until she falls in love

If there are no roads you can walk, break down the walls!

Become a good noticer. Pay attention to the feelings, hunches, and intuitions that flood your life each day. If you do, you will see that premonitions are not rare, but a natural part of our lives.

Love is ecstasy of life

A simple click can cause a great harm

My father owned pit bulls when I was young. He sometimes fought them. My brother and a lot of the men in my community owned pit bulls as well: sometimes they fought them for honor, never for money.

Investigate what is, and not what pleases.

Perhaps for the purposes of war racial differences had been buried, but certainly in no deep grave.

I think when a surfer becomes a surfer, it's almost like an obligation to be an environmentalist at the same time.

The performances make you want to get back out there and try something new and challenge yourself.

The future is an empty canvas or a blank sheet of paper, and if you have the courage of your own thought and your own observation you can make of it what you will

I am moneys medium. It passes through me- taxes, insurance, mortgage, child support, rent, legal fees. All this dignified blundering costs plenty.