If Trump is going to govern in a fascist way, then we need to make America ungovernable.

Paul Ryan's love for Rage Against The Machine is amusing, because he is the embodiment of the machine that our music has been raging against for two decades

A good song should make you wanna tap your foot and get with your girl. A great song should destroy cops and set fire to the suburbs. I'm only interested in writing great songs.

A musicians or artists responsibility is a simple one, and that is, through your music to tell the truth.

Music, I think, is best when it honestly explores personal demons, and it stirs around in the silt of the psyche to find out what's really there.

My music is made for the people who are willing to stand up to change this world themselves.

If aliens came down and challenged us to a Battle of the Bands to decide the fate of Planet Earth, I would feel very confident putting early Van Halen forward as our champion.

Bad presidents make for great music, and I'm gonna do my best to provide it.

When you wanna rock hard, children, lean on F#.

There's a lot of injustice in the world and it's what I sing about in my music and what I try to confront in my life as an activist.

Sacrifice and neon lights, Slaveships don't wait, Love many, trust few, And don't be late...

The mystery of grace is the power of God.

Sunrise is starting to feel like a guilt trip.

I often asked Laplace what he thought of God. He owned that he was an atheist.

The most deeply compelled action is also the freest action. By that I mean, no part of you is outside the action.

I'm always excited to try something I haven't done.

To deny that human beings are filled with anti-social passions betrays a denial of reality and a lack of self-awareness. One has to be taught nonsense for a great many formative years to believe it.

If you’ve got the comedy eye, you can look at any situation and see the humor in it while others don’t.

Hemingway himself and Hemingway's writing were both brilliant, brilliant cocktails.

I can go to any restaurant without a reservation, but while I'm there, everyone's gonna be staring.

A lot of the people that I play with are electronic-based, so there isn't a direct physical analogue between what they're doing and the sound you're hearing.