Music used to cause revolutions and I'm not seeing much revolution anymore.

If I can't change the people around me, I change the people around me.

I came from a mother and father who always made me secure in my beliefs, and that's where the love came from.

Reflect each day on all you have to be grateful for and you will receive more to be grateful for.

Knowledge, wisdom, and understanding don't come out of the microwave. You got to keep moving forward because the evil doesn't sleep.

It's weak to speak and blame somebody else ...When you destroy yourself.

Culture is this thing that we can exchange among ourselves as human beings to knock aside our differences and build upon our similarities. Cultural exchange is the ultimate exchange.

I got a letter from the government the other day I opened and read it...it said they were suckers.

Our freedom of speech is freedom or death, We got to fight the powers that be!

I spread the message of hope and of unity. That's what gets me up in the morning. I can tell you what is wrong, but I can't tell you how to fix it. I'm a raptivist, not a politician. I deal in hope.

The best way to boycott is to build your own

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

It is a man's proper business to seek happiness and avoid misery.

The plural of anecdotes is not data

If I wasn't talking, I wouldn't know what to say.

All descriptions of matter are descriptions of modes of human perception within consciousness.

Major investment decisions have become too important to be left to the private sector.

In a culture defined by shades of gray, I think the absolute black and white choices in dark young adult novels are incredibly satisfying for readers.

If we can exit a relationship, pressure to reconcile lessens; if we must live with those who have wronged us, we are pushed to reconcile.

If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.

I absolutely love the Philharmonic. I also love rock guitar.