In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.

There are things you break that can't be put back together again. And Kashmir may be one of them.

Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.

Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.

‘Respect for religion’ has become a code phrase meaning ‘fear of religion.’ Religions, like all other ideas, deserve criticism, satire, and, yes, our fearless disrespect.

Language upon a silvered tongue affords enchantment enough.

The whole story of migration and what that has done in interconnecting the planet is obviously something I've written about a lot.

faith without doubt is addiction

It matters, it always matters, to name rubbish as rubbish; that to do otherwise is to legitimize it.

It is one thing to make a choice and it is another thing to never have the chance.

Confusing speculation with investment is always a mistake.

One can hardly think too little of one's self. One can hardly think too much of one's soul.

It is a world to see.

Now I may have faith/ to make mountains fall/ But if I lack love/ then I am nothin' at all

I was created in love. For that reason nothing can express my beauty nor liberate me except love alone.

I wanted to say what wasn't being said. I wanted to give people a real story. I wanted people to know people like me exist in the world.

Every generation of rock musician will understand that we wouldn't be anywhere without the support of teenagers buying the records.

I think it's important that you always transform if you can. That's what I was trained to do. You try and hide yourself as much as you can - that's the key to longevity.

Let us have the candor to acknowledge that what we call "the economy" or "the free market" is less and less distinguishable from warfare.