I don't need a Rolls-Royce, I don't need a house in the country, I don't need to live in the south of France. I'm quite happy as I am.

Freedom isn't to do what you want at somebody else's expense.

I'm very open about my politics. I don't believe in any political party at all, none of them.

I'm no one's lap dog, you can't put me on a leash.

Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?

Punk became a circus didn't it? Everybody got it wrong. The message was supposed to be: Don't follow us, do what you want!

Just because people think politically different to you doesn't mean they're inhuman.

Sometimes the most positive thing you can be in a boring society is absolutely negative.

Obama's dense as a doorbell; not much going on up there - it's a wooden top.

You'd have to be daft as a brush to say you didn't like Pink Floyd.

I'm not this callous clown walking around laughing at life all the time. I've had some serious, serious problems in my life. But I've come out with a smile.

Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as necessary as bread in the pockets of the hungry.

So you’re a reader, ” My mom sighs, as if somehow this elevates Isabel to yet another realm of perfection.

God is enough! All religion is enfolded for me now in these three words.

You gotta learn how to think right before you can live right.

Everything that I make I use.

Fear of God and love for God coexist happily in the heart of people who are rightly related to Him.

I'm just a simple kid from Brooklyn who landed into the most enchanted lifestyle imaginable.

There is no substitute for intuition.

What do you care more about? The kids or your hair?

I keep going back to love when I write songs because I can't figure it out.