Who's going to save rock 'n' roll? It's so silly. Remember like in '86 or '87 and synthesizers were going to take over the world? And remember "rocktronica" in 1997? It's ridiculous.

I should choose to be happy. You can choose; you can just throw a switch since, your whole life, it?s just in your brain anyway. It?s just your perception of it.

The meaning of life is not celebrating your birth, it is celebrating your work.

I will praise thee

All real education is the architecture of the soul.

Feeling more comfortable onstage is something I've worked on - it's really about just being the artist I am.

At the extremes it is difficult to distinguish pseudoscience from rigid, doctrinaire religion.

Who are the rabble and who are the ruled?

If you don't find a leader, perhaps it is because you were meant to lead.

Never have I met a person doing terrible things who would meet my own eyes peacefully. To gaze into another person's face is to do two things: to recognize their humanity, and to assert your own.

Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today.

That has been challenging but also such a pleasure to branch out and do different things.