I am no one to be a purist.

If a person wants to be atheistic it's his God-given right to be an atheist.

Quantitative methods are no more synonymous with objectivity than qualitative methods are synonymous with subjectivity.

We just wanna be the happy bums that we are. That's all.

That's one of the great things about touring. It makes you machinelike in a way that you can re-create this music not only in the right way but even better than when it was conceived.

Any idiot, any stockbroker can get out there and live out a fantasy and pretend like he's playing music. And I don't think there's anything wrong with that.

When you start to kind of immerse yourself in that improvisation culture, you gotta be comfortable enough with your instrument to throw yourself into a really potentially dangerous situation.

Diamanda Galás, the avant-weird performance artist... 'The devil's wife,' someone calls her. Faith No More loves Diamanda Galás.

If someone were to hire me for a film they'd be getting a certain kind of package, that's for sure, a certain set of tools. But I would listen to the director.

Stan Slaughter is the thoroughbred of the environmental educators I've hired. Second place is not even close.

I guess I'm getting to the age where a lot of other people my age have real jobs, and when they're hard-up they refer to an old-timer like me.

What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.

Lamon, that speech won't scour. It is a flat failure and the people are disappointed.

you know this means that what we did-what we almost did in Paris-" "Going to the Eiffel Tower?

The longer I live the greater is my respect for manure in all its forms.

I'm just opposed to a pure inflation-only mandate in which the only thing a central bank cares about is inflation and not employment.

Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.

Young people are growing in plain sight, there is no place for them to hide, no cocoon. It’s hard

I would like to enlighten people.

We're all the harshest judges of ourselves.

To me, nothing is more vibrant than having the power to do something but not having the experience of knowing what's right and what's wrong.