My God, rich people have the time to praise You if they want to, but the poor people are so busy, accept their work as praise because, my God, they don’t have time for everything.

The rich can afford to be progressive. Poor people have reason to be afraid of the future.

The mockery towards the ignorant reflects ignorance.

I have an all-Japanese design team, and none of them speak English. So it's often funny and surprising how my ideas end up lost in translation.

If the next record is no better than Gish, then we've failed.

My first favorite band that made music important to me was the Beatles. I was a little kid. I didn't know who was singing what song or who wrote what song.

There are things that you can do on an individual level, even as you continue to fight oppression systemically, that make things a little bit better for an identifiable group.

There is no Love greater than Love with no object. For then you, yourself, have become love, itself.

I am doing the job with the mentality that I am going to be here a long time and I hope that I am.

It is faith that makes a lion of a man.

I'd catch moonlight in a bottle, if we could drink a toast to happiness.

The value of art is its ability to look into the "world of oblivion" and to find things that are generally unrecognized, forgotten, invisible and impossible to tell.