If you're using live bass versus orchestral bass, you've got to make sure that you're not stepping on the toes of the other elements, so you've got to balance it out.

Sometimes it's better to have a benign dictator than a dumb democracy, to be honest.

We first fought... in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.

I think music has the ability to inspire people and to change hearts, and the heart has the power to change the mind, and the mind has the power to change the world.

The living ideas of the dead are more powerful and effective than the dead ideas of the living.

Life is that perfect fine line between ironies.

Pretending that we live doesn't make us alive.

Civilization is a failure. We need to think what we can do together in love and peace.

Science fails to recognize the single most potent element of human existence...faith.

Awareness in our society has flipped all types of injustice on its head.

We have the power to change our lives, and the world around us.

There is no cure for ambition other than success.

And this shows that sometimes people want to be stupid and they do not want to know the truth.

You who are in power have only the means that money produces — we who are in expectation, have those which devotion prompts.

I'm not a big fan of identity politics and sort of picking one thing and defining yourself with it.

Treat your past as a book that you learn from instead of a hammer that you beat yourself up about.

Nordie's at Noon is an honest and inspiring testament to [these authors'] experiences which, I am completely confident... will inspire thousands of women as it inspired me.

Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value

If you want your dreams to come true, don't oversleep.

There is no end to learning, but there are many beginnings.

The true guide of life is to do what is right.