It sounds corny, but it's absolutely true: A song chooses me. I don't go looking for a certain kind of lyric. It kind of develops its own little arc and I'll just see what happens.

Action is the antidote to despair.

You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.

You may not know it, but at the far end of despair, there is a white clearing where one is almost happy.

I went to jail for 11 days for disturbing the peace; I was trying to disturb the war.

I think music has the power to transform people, and in doing so, it has the power to transform situations - some large and some small.

The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.

I've never had a humble opinion. If you've got an opinion, why be humble about it?

I have hope in people, in individuals. Because you don't know what's going to rise from the ruins.

As long as one keeps searching, the answers will come.

Someone had to change the world. And obviously I was the one for the job.

Never mistrust, unless given a reason.

Don't be afraid. Change is such a beautiful thing", said the Butterfly.

We have been basically persuaded that we should not talk about racism.

Every renaissance comes to the world with a cry, the cry of the human spirit to be free.

Every time we fix something that broken, whether it's a car engine or a broken heart, that an act of magic. And what makes it magic is that we choose to create or help, just as we can choose to harm.

A heavenly society is a harmony of many.

I don't take drugs, I take books.

I don't go out and just try to score. I score because there is an opportunity to score.

I'm tough on the outside and soft on the inside [...] I'm really a shy guy.

In America, if you don't do a 100 million dollars, you've done nothing.