A lot of my old stuff is pretty simple. The new stuff is slightly more in-depth.

There is a monumental difference between being alive and living. You should never settle for the first.

If we ever meet in real life, we can have a conversation. But you should go and live your real life and I'll go and live mine.

If we all can figure out how to work together then we are the embodiment of salvation for our entire planet. We have the capabilities of it. That's the gist of it.

You can say something stupid with an incredible heartfelt sentiment and for some reason, it might be insanely powerful.

It's hard to know if what you do is actually working for anyone else or not. There's so much music out there. Why would someone ever listen to what I do?

I never think anything's finished. It's really not. Recording is only just a moment in time. It's as good as you can do it until then.

No one holds the power. Just because they might give you a bit of money every now and then doesn't mean that they have the right to change what you do.

Maybe 80 percent of what we conceive to be a song idea or the meaning of a song is not exactly what the artist meant most of the time. It's not bad - people can take what they want from it.

I don't mind throwing something away. It should be your best or it should be what you want people to hear and something that's good for people.

LA is an intense city. I was probably a bit too sensitive. I didn't have any friends so I was keeping pretty low key. I just whipped myself up into a bit of an emotional frenzy.

The devil hates the people who build the broken walls, he detests those who restore them

Our fight against racism should not be a matter of black and white, but good and evil.

It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance.

The biggest difficulty in getting to the top of the ladder is getting through the crowd at the bottom.

If you grew up in a household with a football coach who looks like a drill sergeant, you would think you would be tough.

I think that some of our soldiers die in the battlefield and some come home to bad health and die prematurely, just by the nature of the kind of business they're in.

Frequently, when I'm compared to someone, I'm like, "Is that really what people think I sound like?"

To be understanding is more important than to be right.

In such an environment, I was able to study things that could be of immediate usefulness to the world. That learning experience undoubtedly served me well when I eventually entered the work force.

As I get older every year, I'm eating better. As a kid, who can turn down chips and candy? But I'm getting better.