I'd say that one area where my political views have remained unchanged is that, I am opposed to the government spying on everybody.

Paul Ryan's love for Rage Against The Machine is amusing, because he is the embodiment of the machine that our music has been raging against for two decades

A good song should make you wanna tap your foot and get with your girl. A great song should destroy cops and set fire to the suburbs. I'm only interested in writing great songs.

A musicians or artists responsibility is a simple one, and that is, through your music to tell the truth.

Music, I think, is best when it honestly explores personal demons, and it stirs around in the silt of the psyche to find out what's really there.

My music is made for the people who are willing to stand up to change this world themselves.

If aliens came down and challenged us to a Battle of the Bands to decide the fate of Planet Earth, I would feel very confident putting early Van Halen forward as our champion.

Bad presidents make for great music, and I'm gonna do my best to provide it.

When you wanna rock hard, children, lean on F#.

There's a lot of injustice in the world and it's what I sing about in my music and what I try to confront in my life as an activist.

Sacrifice and neon lights, Slaveships don't wait, Love many, trust few, And don't be late...

Since the world began has any man ever been able to know what would happen tomorrow? The world of men is today. I'm asking you to open your heart today. Tomorrow belongs to Allah ...

Our greatest moral regrets are always preceded by a series of unwise choices.

Things done well and with care exempt themselves from fear.

Getting used to our blessings is one of the most important non-evil generators of human evil, tragedy and suffering.

You don't smear somebody as a racist when there is obviously nothing there.

I was raised on technology. I grew up in Livermore, California, a town of physicists and cowboys. My parents worked at the government laboratories there. So technology was very normal for me.

If you are serious about sports and athletics then you need to begin the discipline of mind. With the power of mind, almost anything can be accomplished.

True education is a kind of never-ending story . . .

Wearing a pair of yellow shoes does not make you an interesting person, that is of course unless you've just murdered someone in them.

I'm not a big jazz fan.