Action is the only reality not only reality but morality as well.

You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.

Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.

Democracy is not something you believe in or a place to hang your hat, but it's something you do. You participate. If you stop doing it, democracy crumbles.

Today is the first day of the rest of your life.

I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.

Peace is a very complicated concept. When the lion gobbles up the lamb and wipes his lips, then there's peace. Well, I ain't for that peace at all.

My critique of democracy begins and ends with this point. Kids must be educated to disrespect authority or else democracy is a farce.

Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them.

Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.

The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.

It's a round ball and a round bat and you got to hit it square.

It really shocked me just to hear of the fans' response to 'St. Anger' not having guitar solos.

I understand Tea Partyers' anger with the system, but they are in way over their heads and often racially motivated, and I can't be part of that.

If you think you can, or if u think you can't.. Either way ur correct... It's the thinking that makes it so.

If we (Lauren and Jim) ever get married, we're just going to put helmets on, run into each other from a hundred yards, and smash together like rams

I sort of loved the bustle of a thousand questions. Women are inherently kind of multitaskers.

Poetry gave me back my voice.

I really was kind of like a musical nerd. I would watch VH1's 'Behind The Music.' That was heavy when I was a kid. I would sit up and want to watch that all day instead of going outside sometimes.

In art there is no absolute good or bad, but it is absolute that there is good and bad.