People always ask me 'do you think there should be more bands doing political music?' and I say 'absolutely not.'

Sometimes it's better to have a benign dictator than a dumb democracy, to be honest.

We first fought... in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.

I think music has the ability to inspire people and to change hearts, and the heart has the power to change the mind, and the mind has the power to change the world.

The living ideas of the dead are more powerful and effective than the dead ideas of the living.

Life is that perfect fine line between ironies.

Pretending that we live doesn't make us alive.

Civilization is a failure. We need to think what we can do together in love and peace.

Science fails to recognize the single most potent element of human existence...faith.

Awareness in our society has flipped all types of injustice on its head.

We have the power to change our lives, and the world around us.

Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

To say "I love you" one must know first how to say the "I".

Many kids, it seemed, would find out that their parents were flawed, messed-up people later in life, and I didn't appreciate getting to know it all so strong and early.

The gentleman calls attention to the good points in others; he does not call attention to their defects. The small man does just the reverse of this.

I am dreading the publication, for it will be impossible not to mind what is said. I have exposed my heart to be shot at.

I should not have to flirt with someone while I'm trying to threaten someone else with a gun; it was too hard to do both.

Tragedy plus time equals humor.

What happened in the milliseconds before a behavior to cause it? That's in the neurobiological realm.

Originality, I fear, is too often only undetected and frequently unconscious plagiarism.