Trump's ignorance in environmental science is a threat to the entire planet.

Paul Ryan's love for Rage Against The Machine is amusing, because he is the embodiment of the machine that our music has been raging against for two decades

A good song should make you wanna tap your foot and get with your girl. A great song should destroy cops and set fire to the suburbs. I'm only interested in writing great songs.

A musicians or artists responsibility is a simple one, and that is, through your music to tell the truth.

Music, I think, is best when it honestly explores personal demons, and it stirs around in the silt of the psyche to find out what's really there.

My music is made for the people who are willing to stand up to change this world themselves.

If aliens came down and challenged us to a Battle of the Bands to decide the fate of Planet Earth, I would feel very confident putting early Van Halen forward as our champion.

Bad presidents make for great music, and I'm gonna do my best to provide it.

When you wanna rock hard, children, lean on F#.

There's a lot of injustice in the world and it's what I sing about in my music and what I try to confront in my life as an activist.

Sacrifice and neon lights, Slaveships don't wait, Love many, trust few, And don't be late...

Only the faithful God knows the future.

Fear is the illusion that I have some control over the bad things that might happen to me.

Sounds of Time rattles the silence of Reality. An illusion pierces through similar existence and creates a conflict zone.

There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.

War so conspicuously benefits rich men and kills the poor ones.

I know that people think I'm a party king; but, face it, if I finished the bottle every time I took a drink, I wouldn't be able to do the aerials I do onstage.

The camera could be a very powerful instrument against discrimination, against poverty, against racism.

Volunteering to help others is the right thing to do, and it also boosts personal happiness

You got to have two things to win. You got to have brains and you got to have balls. Now you've got too much of one and not enough of the other.

The past can be used to renew the present, not just to bury it.