Some say this country's just out looking for a fight, after 9/11 man, I'd have to say that's right.

POW 369, I should salute you from this heart of mine. And thank you for placing your life on the line.

I can't save them by myself, oh but God forbid that I just turn my head and walk on by. Don't let me be a stranger to those less fortunate than I.

Brother killing brother, father slaying son. From the looks of this old graveyard, hell nobody really won.

Somehow it all got too out of hand, too complicated for a simple man. Don't want to have to pick and choose, hey, look at all these things I'll never use.

Have you forgotten when those towers fell, we had neighbors still inside. And you say we shouldn't worry about Bin Laden, have you forgotten?

I hear people saying we don't need this war, I say there's some things worth fighting for. What about our freedom and this piece of ground, we didn't get to keep them by backing down.

A leader is a lamp not just a sign board.

Art as the single superior counter-force against all will to negation of life, art as the anti-Christian, anti-Buddhist, anti-Nihilist par excellence.

But suppose we are nothing more than the sum of our first, naive, random behaviors. What then?

Learn to play the piano, man, and then you can figure out crazy solos of your own.

My main thing is constantly looking forward and trying to make music that I couldn't have made at any other time.

There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.

There is a great difference between believing in something and believing in it again.

Knowledge and ability were tools, not things to show off.

American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.

Ignorance might be bliss, but it's irresponsible and dangerous too.