Most people get into bands for three very simple rock and roll reasons: to get laid, to get fame, and to get rich.

When I hit 11 so did the careers of Dylan and the Stones. A year later it was the Who and the Kinks.

When Michael Jackson sings it is with the voice of angels, and when his feet move, you can see God dancing.

It strikes me as being morally repulsive and intellectually absurd that people die of want in a world of surplus.

Mankind at its most desperate is often at its best

You can't trust politicians. It doesn't matter who makes a political speech. It's all lies - and it applies to any rock star who wants to make a political speech as well.

Physically I'm tired at the end of the day and quite glad to be reading in bed by midnight

And whereas women had to fight to find their way into the workforce, men are now fighting to reclaim their place in the family structure.

There is not a single extant study that supports all the arguments against men being with their children. It's absolute bollocks

Feed the world. Let them know it's Christmas time again.

It's really very simple, Governor. When people are hungry they die. So spare me your politics and tell me what you need and how you're going to get it to these people.

It's always your assumptions about you, about others, about future that make reality worse than it actually is.

Without strength, can we work to create wealth?

I let loose a guttural roar-the cry of a man who has been deprived of his rightful kibbeh. I drew my sword and smacked the eagle with flat of the blade

Stories are propaganda, virii that slide past your critical immune system and insert themselves directly into your emotions.

You will take his life but you can't take his memory out of us.

If the great Government of the United States were a private corporation no bank would take its name on a piece of paper, because it has cynically repudiated the words engraved upon its bonds.

She laughed and danced with the thought of death in her heart.

There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.

our present picture of physical reality, particularly in relation to the nature of time, is due for a grand shake up

What's wrong with hip-hop is the system that controls the definition of it. There needs to be more balance on the airwaves.