I don't mind what the market is, but why is it vapid? If they're such a bunch of idiots, why don't you show them good music instead? They're not going to know the difference.

Before you can make good music, you just have to shut up. Then the music can say what it has to say.

I guess I'll just slip into the studio after the next time with the Muses, and then just keel over and die.

No drug is a cure, though. Drugs are just big pieces of tape they stick over warning lights.

Popular music sucks so bad right now.

Nirvana was pop. You can have distorted guitars and people say it's alternative, but you can't break out of pop music's constructs and still get extensive radio play and media coverage.

I've always chosen my band members based on their sense of humor. It might sound stupid, but it means not only are they fun to live with on a tour bus for years, but humor implies intelligence.

My brother and I were meditating before we were 6 years old, having to stare at the wall and chant.

We need a day of the dead. That's a perfect celebration.

Good taste - that's all you really need when you're playing an instrument.

I have to play as much of the game as I allow myself to get the music heard. But it's not unlike the rest of the world, so I'm not as up in arms about it as I could be.

He knew how to say many false things that were like true sayings.

The people who misuse the Sabbath lose the blessings of spiritual food and growth promised to those who keep this commandment.

Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.

Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for

The Garden of Eden presents the same story: If you want to make yourself gods, you'll find you're akin to the animals.

I love acting because it's a bit of an escape. It gives you the ability to reinvent yourself. They say that acting is the shy man's revenge.

Relax, ease back in your seats and let the music take you wherever it does.

Singing allowed me to express myself in ways that I wouldn't be able to do otherwise.

And for those of you who want to start any trouble, I have a zero tolerance policy. . . .

Dependence begets subservience and paves the way for tyranny.