And Quotes

We're here to re-dedicate you to The Power, The Passion, The Mystery, and The Ministry of Rock and Roll.

The difference between trying to be fit and not being fit really means the difference between life and death.

Good and evil are polar concepts - one can't exist without the other.

Sometimes when I play that old six-string, I think about you, wonder what went wrong.

I got my first real six string, bought it at the five and dime, played it 'til my fingers bled.

Fear is the greatest enemy; the father of all suffering, and love is the only cure for humanity's great afflictions.

Wanting anything too desperately is a form of aggression and violence, which will always be met with resistance.

A great painting is something that you can come back to again and again.

Boxing is a mental sport. Think of a prizefight as a chess game of mind and body, and you are a little closer to it than if you compare it to a bloody brawl in an alley.

Your financial cost can best be figured out when you realize that if you were to devote the same time and energy to business instead of gold, you would be a millionaire in approximately six weeks.

Writing is difficult. It's a time commitment, it's labor and I'd have to get myself to sit down and actually do the work and outline.

Like actors and writers who are on and off again in terms of employment, I had a very unstructured life.

True men and women are all physicians to make us well.

Writing day and night for months… that’s hard.

Truth and falsehood are opposed; but truth is the norm not of truth only but of falsehood also.

In the midst of a world of light and love, of song and feast and dance, [Lucifer] could find nothing to think of more interesting than his own prestige.

Only He who really lived a human life (and I presume that only one did) can fully taste the horror of death.

You will be what you are, and whatever it is, you will be fine. Everyone has to accept that and love you for who you are; it doesn’t really matter where your heritage comes from

I was brought up in a kind of, you know, very hippie, liberal family. And it was just always automatically assumed that men and women were equal and indeed superior.

I love a little more driving rock and roll vibe and that kind of music has always spoke to me. I guess it just rubs off when I'm writing music.

Advertising is the most potent influence in adapting and changing the habits and modes of life affecting what we eat, what we wear, and the work and play of a whole nation.

I can't hear music. I don't understand it. It's so above and beyond me.

I wanted to make a comment on the obsession with success and failure that we see a lot in America.

I do listen to Abba. And a lot of '80s and '90s pop music.

Social justice and compassion are compatible with an intelligent respect for private enterprise and law and order.

I am healthy and happy.

Growing up, me and my brother, we were kind of exact opposites. We were completely yin and yang. He was more rough and tumble, and I just wanted to play with my girlfriends.

Sins are timeless. Sins are an everyday reality for every one. Sin has been in existence since the beginning of man, since Adam and Eve. It will always be pertinent.

I think my work is very American because I'm American. But I found that Europeans like uncertainty and doubt.

When I'm working on a novel of my own, I try to read mostly nonfiction, although sometimes I break down and peek at something else.

At the end of the day, if you're a professional athlete in track and field you are the CEO of your company.

We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands. The loom of time and space works the most astonishing transformations of matter.

I was up day and night with Lincoln for years. I couldn't have picked a better companion.

There are men and women so lonely they believe God, too, is lonely.

Poetry is an exhibit of one pendulum connecting with other and unseen pendulums inside and outside the one seen.

There is a central difference between the old and new economies: the old industrial economy was driven by economies of scale; the new information economy is driven by the economics of networks.

The more we give of ourselves, the more our capacity to serve, understand, and love will grow.

I know our policies work best to lift young men and women up - regardless of their background - so that they can choose their own path and live lives of dignity, purpose, and meaning.

Traveling around sure gets me down and lonely, nothing else to do but close my mind. I sure hope the road don't come to own me, there's so many dreams I've yet to find. But you're so far away.

I think the Internet has made things a lot easier. Twitter and Facebook let you really connect to your readers effortlessly!

The proposal that men and women should be treated equally under the law is hardly a controversial concept.

He was so much in love with me that I could have asked him for the moon and stars, and he would have gathered them for me.

Being born and raised as a Californian, I somewhat ignorantly had taken for granted the diversity and liberal mindset that shaped my childhood and adult life.

I definitely think we should all have the right to love, and love publicly, the people we want to love.

I've learned it's really important to work hard and keep your family and friends close. You've got to let them know how much you appreciate them for sticking by you.

I love having my hair and makeup done for red carpets, but to have that done every day would be exhausting.

The theme is the theme of humiliation, which is the square root of sin, as opposed to the freedom from humiliation, and love, which is the square root of wonderful.

In a way, if we want to make the postseason, we feel like we have to win out. We have got some good games coming up, but we are going to have to buckle down and get the job done somehow.

No one is black and white or good or bad or happy or sad or what have you. [All have] particular idiosyncrasies that make them fascinating and that's how I tend to approach a character.

If you truly dig what you are doing, if you lay it out that way, nobody can not respond. That's what rock and roll is; it's relentless.