What pisses me off is when I've got seven or eight record company fat pig men sitting there telling me what to wear.

I don't do anything in order to cause trouble. It just so happens that what I do naturally causes trouble. I'm proud to be a troublemaker.

Women are to be valued for so much more than their sexuality. We aren’t merely objects of desire.

I understand that we are actually complicated people but we are also dreadfully simple.

I don't believe in any kind of artistic snobbery or musical snobbery. You know, to me, the sexiest and the most spiritual words ever uttered in rock and roll are wop babaloo balop bam boom.

Maybe it was mean, but I really don't think so. You asked for the truth and I told you.

When you dishonor the the utter glory and majesty of black people, you lie. Your heart lies to you and you let it

I grew up in a situation of extreme abuse, but there was no chance to talk about it, so music became the escape if you like.

At some point the entire population of the earth is gonna have to look back at the kind of essence of spirituality which is basically caring about each other.

We have a tradition of passing our history orally and singing a lot of it and writing songs about it and there's kind of a calling in Irish voices when they're singing in their Irish accent.

When I kissed you, you didn't mind. I thought I tasted of too many cigarettes, but you tasted like wine.

There is no Constitutional right to prey on others. The Internet is just a piece of technology, like the telephone. Society has the right to modify its uses.

I'm like John Q. Public. I represent what every guy wants and needs.

I'm always driven by something. It doesn't matter what it is, it could be the smallest task or something huge.

Israel will not tolerate a situation in which Iran has effective control of non-conventional weapons that can be used directly against the state of Israel.

Instead of a 'Western Christianity,' we now witness a post-Christian West (in Europe) and a post-Western Christianity (in the global South). America is somewhere in between.

Acting keeps me young! I love that the fans like this kind of action and as long as they want me I'll continue to do it.

Among the major tasks before us none is of greater importance for our strength and stability than the task of building up the unity and solidarity of our people.

I know I'm responsible for not having got the kind of roles that I'd have liked to.

It is easy to defend the innocent; but who is eloquent enough to defend the guilty?

God doesn't always change the circumstances, but He can change us to meet the circumstances. That's what it means to live by faith.