It's not about loving animals. It's about fighting injustice. My whole goal is for humans to have as little contact as possible with animals.

How would you feel, if the day that you were born, somebody else had already planned the day of your execution?

If it's not good enough for your eyes, why is it good enough for your stomach?

My goal is simple. All I want to do is re-connect people with animals. Awaken some emotions and some feelings and some logic, that is been buried and suppressed, intentionally, by our society.

You know what’s more insane than [slaughterhouses]? Meat eaters. Walking around, acting like their lifestyle isn’t causing any harm.

Stop filtering your nutrients through somebody else's body.

If people want to be real meat eaters, I'd love to see people eat raw flesh from the bone, down to the bone with nothing left but the bones, day after day after day.

I despise 'animal welfare.' That's like saying, 'Let's beat the slaves three times a week instead of five times a week'.

Every time you have a glass of cow milk, some calf is not.

If an 'animal abuser' were killed in a research lab firebombing, I would unequivocally support that, too.

No human influenced me to become vegan. The screaming, terrified, enslaved animals were the only influence needed.

To pluck a flower means to take possession of it, and it also means to kill it.

Good coaching is good teaching and nothing else.

My vocation is to make my life an act of worship

Well mostly in song writing my experience is that there isn't so much inspiration as hard work. You sit there for hours, days and weeks with a guitar and piano until something good comes.

I think I'm very real as a person, and that comes across in my work.

It is not the fact that a man has riches which keeps him from the kingdom of heaven, but the fact that riches have him.

My spirit is too weak--mortality Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep, And each imagin'd pinnacle and steep Of godlike hardship tells me I must die Like a sick Eagle looking at the sky.

When I wasn't as attractive as I am now, I suffered at the hands of cruel children and their taunts until I realised that confidence and a bit of aesthetic care can overcome that.

I didn't go to America to be a star, but to try to reclaim my life.

Failure isn't failure unless you just stop with that.