With 'Elect the Dead,' I learned how to make a rock record without a rock band and make the rock record I've always wanted to make.

Sometimes it's better to have a benign dictator than a dumb democracy, to be honest.

We first fought... in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.

I think music has the ability to inspire people and to change hearts, and the heart has the power to change the mind, and the mind has the power to change the world.

The living ideas of the dead are more powerful and effective than the dead ideas of the living.

Life is that perfect fine line between ironies.

Pretending that we live doesn't make us alive.

Civilization is a failure. We need to think what we can do together in love and peace.

Science fails to recognize the single most potent element of human existence...faith.

Awareness in our society has flipped all types of injustice on its head.

We have the power to change our lives, and the world around us.

Revenge is what I want. Nothing but pure unadulterated revenge. But my mother brought me up to be a lady.

I felt I wasn't getting anywhere in England.

Once you overcome the hatred within your mind, you will discover that in the world outside, there is no longer any such thing as even a single enemy.

Gold makes the ugly beautiful.

One day you'll love me, the way I love you. One day you'll think of me the way I think of you. One day you'll cry for me, the way I cry for you. One day you'll want me, but I won't want you.

Living faith is above circumstances; no delays can discourage it, no loss of friends or depression in trade can touch it.

To be honest, I'm not much of a drinker. It makes me sick, and I hate that.

I liked the energy of cooking, the action, the camaraderie. I often compare the kitchen to sports and compare the chef to a coach. There are a lot of similarities to it.

I exercise strong self control. I never drink anything stronger than gin before breakfast.

Women are as roses, whose fair flower, being once displayed, doth fall that very hour.