The music starts as being way separate from the lyrics, and I write - I have notebooks that I fill with drawings and just words, and stuff that I've written.

Music is much more of a multimedia sort of thing than I expected.

There are a million things out there every single day that trigger me - songs, smells, even the season that we're in, fall. Something about the air.

It's so easy to hate something. It's harder to genuinely appreciate something.

I'm glad that, despite everything, I was able to get work done and finish something. I never finish anything. So just being able to finish record and to make music is a great gift.

A record is worth 10,000 live shows.

There are just some things that you can't deny.

All I'm trying to do is make music that people like and that makes people happy.

I am super-interested in fashion. I love being a person whose clothes get discussed. That makes it more interesting for me.

I'm like part of the Kurt Cobain school of writing lyrics, which is the syntax of the words is more important than... is where it all comes from.

If I play Coachella, it's sponsored by a company - that's corporate, too. But we're playing it because we're getting paid and we want to be a part of the festival.

It seemed there was always a close correlation between true believers and high body counts.

People shouldn't look at me and think life is one big piece of glamour. That's the marketing, the spin. Life is challenging. But I have courage, strength, and enough good health to see the positive.

It's easy to be a spokesman and ambassador for a great organization like the NBA. I thank Commissioner David Stern for putting that trust in me to serve the NBA around the globe.

Philosophy is explicitness, generality, orientation and assessment. That which one would insinuate, thereof one must speak.

That all men would be cowards if they dare, Some men we know have courage to declare.

Coffee is to wake up, coffee is to work with, coffee is to live with, coffee is life

America's got to take a break from foreign wars, and take a break from immigration.

I try to make women feel more powerful without losing their femininity.

Art is our weapon. Culture is a form of resistance.

Somebody has to look out for and protect our kids, and I feel blessed to be a blessing to someone else.