I don't consider myself a religious person, but I consider myself a very spiritual person. I would say I have a relationship with God, I believe in God, I do.

We say to ourselves we won't live forever, but I don't think that thought ever really sinks in until the day comes.

Don't stop imagining. The day that you do is the day that you die.

The whole concept of having something really in-your-face that you're forced to listen to is beautiful because I think music should be an event and not something that's just dismissed.

If I feel like I'm writing from an agenda, that's when I throw something away. If I have a strategy I feel like I'm doing it for the wrong reasons.

I've realized the most effective way to write, for me, is knowing what to throw away.

As far as music being something that's not background, it doesn't mean that it's loud, it means that it's instantly something to dwell on and process and swallow and regurgitate.

My brain can think faster than I can, Im not fast enough. Who is there to talk to that wont lock me up?

Great leaders are inspired by a challenge, a need, a problem, an issue that needs to be corrected.

Indeed, in that sense we’re all rather often almost like mad people, only with the slight difference that the ‘sick’ are somewhat madder than we are, so that it’s necessary to draw a line here.

Expertise is the mantra of modern medicine.

We're already saying it's not the dog, but you need to adopt this lifestyle which is exercise, discipline, and affection.

I don't see any point in nihilism... just as I suppose the nihilist sees no point in everything else.

When someone helps you, then that means one thing, all they expect in return is for you to show them what you're doing and for you to help someone else.

I believe in human rights for everyone, and none of us is qualified to judge each other and that none of us should therefore have that authority.

We can see the light but we are still inside the tunnel, ... We have not been able to get to all the communities.

Madness, like small fish, runs in hosts, in vast numbers of instances.

I remember a passage in Goldsmith's "Vicar of Wakefield," which he was afterwards fool enough to expunge: "I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing.