It's important for all people, and not just people in bands, to speak out on social justice issues. That means journalists or plumbers have just as much of a responsibility to do that as artists.

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.

My life my selfie!

You know, your ears record. You might can sing a song once you hear it.

What do I think about the way most people dress? Most people are not something one thinks about.

I went through awkward, chubby, total weirdo phases.

My religion is a matter solely between my Maker and myself.

Choices always were a problem for you. What you need is someone strong to guide you. Deaf and blind and dumb and born to follow, what you need is someone strong to use you - like me.

Conflict is the place where character and plot intersect.

When I saw the pictures of New York without the World Trade Center, New York looked like a shadow of itself.

In the beginning of their end, people created their gods and their after-lives.

Just because you know doesn't mean they know.