If you were the boss of a company and some of the employees of your company were known to sexually abuse children, you would fire them instantly.

I don't do anything in order to cause trouble. It just so happens that what I do naturally causes trouble. I'm proud to be a troublemaker.

Women are to be valued for so much more than their sexuality. We aren’t merely objects of desire.

I understand that we are actually complicated people but we are also dreadfully simple.

I don't believe in any kind of artistic snobbery or musical snobbery. You know, to me, the sexiest and the most spiritual words ever uttered in rock and roll are wop babaloo balop bam boom.

Maybe it was mean, but I really don't think so. You asked for the truth and I told you.

When you dishonor the the utter glory and majesty of black people, you lie. Your heart lies to you and you let it

I grew up in a situation of extreme abuse, but there was no chance to talk about it, so music became the escape if you like.

At some point the entire population of the earth is gonna have to look back at the kind of essence of spirituality which is basically caring about each other.

We have a tradition of passing our history orally and singing a lot of it and writing songs about it and there's kind of a calling in Irish voices when they're singing in their Irish accent.

When I kissed you, you didn't mind. I thought I tasted of too many cigarettes, but you tasted like wine.

I strongly object to wrong arguments on the right side. I think I object to them more than to the wrong arguments on the wrong side.

The problem is that our ideas are sticky: once we produce a theory, we are not likely to change our minds....

When someone who's starved of love is shown something that looks like sincere affection, is it any wonder that she jumps at it and clings to it?

When one door is closed, don't you know, another is open.

O virtue, I have followed you through life, and find you at last but a shade.

Those are my enemies: they want to overthrow and to construct nothing themselves. They say: "All that is worthless"--and want to create no value themselves.

I'm exposing faultlines, dealing especially with rhetoric. Showing that heterosexuality is a disease, or at least its inheritance.

Live now, live today - don't be bound by rules, live your own dream.

As the saints will rejoice in all goods, so will the damned grieve for all goods.

When you travel with the team and you eat with the team - you eat what the team eats.