I'm involved in the work around prison rights in general.

I'm no longer accepting the things I cannot change...I'm changing the things I cannot accept.

You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.

We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia.

When children attend schools that place a greater value on discipline and security than on knowledge and intellectual development, they are attending prep schools for prison.

Walls turned sideways are bridges.

Justice is indivisible. You can't decide who gets civil rights and who doesn't.

We must always attempt to lift as we climb

The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?

We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.

I have a hard time accepting diversity as a synonym for justice. Diversity is a corporate strategy.

Maybe you receive pain selfishly — thinking only of yourself. The cycle of pain wounds every participant

Dope will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no dope.

Sometimes you must shed your skin to save it.

I taught myself how to play the guitar, I taught myself how to play the drums, and I kind of fake doing both of them. But drumming comes more natural to me, and it just feels better.

Actually, if you take the average American, and studies have shown that, he is really concerned only with private affairs; that is to say, with his health, his money and family affairs.

I think that, y'know, they seem to really love music, which means they'll stick with it. I think that Hanson could be really good in a few years, actually!

Sometimes the idea of being truly iconic has something to do with not necessarily being beautiful and thus trying harder.

Yeah, there's a tendency to get pigeonholed in Hollywood.

Congressman is the trivialist distinction for a full grown man.

One of the nice things about licensing music to movies or advertisements is you can reach a lot of people who normally wouldn't hear music.