If I'm working on one thing, then that's all that there is going on, and there's no such thing as a side project to me. It's 100 percent.

Performing to me is the most vital, most important. It's my favorite part of all of it. I just want to be on stage.

Playing a song changes a song. Every night a song becomes something else on stage.

I actually got into music because of art and because of skateboarding: All those graphics and punk bands and fanzines - they were glued together in my brain.

When you do music, your friends are writers, actors, painters. It's all under the sameroof. So anything creative is interesting to me.

Performing is one thing, and day-to-day stuff - like the way you talk to people - is totally different. If I acted like I did onstage in normal life, everyone would probably hate me.

I think you have to find your own language. You find your footing with it, and you start to express it in certain ways.

I think things are beautiful when you don’t plan them, and you don’t have any expectations, and you’re not trying to get somewhere in particular.

I get tired of talking when I want to be silent.

What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them.

Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

I never know what I'm going to put on the canvas. The canvas paints itself. I'm just the middleman.

Those who appreciate the ways of simple tribes, where every activity is direct and immediately understandable, are able to live among them.

Nothing can be more idle than the opposition of theory to practice!

While your life is the true expression of your faith, whom can you fear?

My mother gave lots of good advice and had a lot to say. As you get older, you realize everything she said was true.

Soldiers of Israel, we have no aims of conquest. Our purpose is to bring to naught the attempts of the Arab armies to conquer our land.

Once I stopped with the excuses, my life has changed. There's no reason for me to lose any more.