I'm in this band to give volume to various struggles throughout the world. To me, the tension in this band is a minimal sacrifice.

One of the great things about young people is that they do question, that they do care deeply about justice, and they they have open minds.

If ignorance is bliss, then knock the smile off my face...

It has to start somewhere, it has to start sometime, what better place than here? What better time than now?

Yes I know my enemies. They're the teachers who taught me to fight me, compromise, conformity, assimilation, submission, ignorance, hypocrisy, brutality, the elite, all of which are American dreams.

When ignorance reigns, life is lost...

'Cause I'll rip the mic, rip the stage, rip the system I was born to rage against 'em

Who controls the past now controls the future. Who controls the present now controls the past. Who controls the past now controls the future. Who controls the present now?

Your anger is a gift.

The classroom's the last room to get the truth.

I think animals should be free. There's so much other food out there that doesn't have to involve you in that cycle of pain and death.

Faith is full force.

Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.

With current technology it is possible to put four floppy disk drives in a personal computer. It is just that doing so would be pointless.

I don't dance like I used to, but I'm moving and I'll be doing my form of dance at Town Hall... I hit my limitations but I learn to work with what I've got.

Instruments fascinate me because they're completely awkward. When I picked up a guitar for the first time I was like, "What is this?" because it's so foreign and unknown.

A "godly" person is one who ceases to be self-centered in order to become God-centered.

A man may just as soon read the Scripture without eyes, as understand the spirit of it without grace.

One blames politicians, not for inconsistency but for obstinacy. They are the interpreters, not the masters, of our fate. It is their job, in fact, to register the fact accompli.

the private conscience is the last and only protection of the civilized world.

People who don't like my work say that the connections seem too arbitrary. But that's how life is.