I'm not in for killing another man, defending my holy land, as if there's a god who would understand.

I had no allusions of radio success. I just loved being in studios. I was having fun and in that sense I now feel a lot like I did when I did that record.

When I go to Japan and do shows I play for 1,000 to 1,500 people. I like a lot about Japan. Their popular culture and mass commercialization appeals to me.

I figured if the plane goes down, I'll go with a great genius and will always have my name connected with his.

There are things that I value now that I didn't when I first went over there, like Zen Buddhism, which has become part of my life over the last couple years.

It became a question of do I want to be on a label where it could take three years to put out a record instead of putting out three records over the same period of time on my own.

Wavering and burning like a golden lie.

In a world that's ugly and a lie, it's hard to even want to try.

It wasn't so much that I had to leave to make it in the music business as I was curious to be out on my own and sort of explore. I never felt that where I was ever influenced my songwriting.

You're laughing at everything that's bringing me down.

They're not your words, but you're reciting the lines.

Better safe than sorry!

My definition of love is being full. Complete. It makes everything lighter. Beauty is something you see. Love is something you feel.

Most women have small waists the world throughout, But their desires are thousand miles about.

You walk in our locker room and you see Pau Gasol, you see Andrew Bynum, you see Kobe, you see Ron Artest ... we have so many players that can play.

It is pointless to believe what you see, if you only see what you believe.

Not all of those to whom we do good love us, neither do all those to whom we do evil hate us.

I write for myself; I release the albums to connect with everyone else.

The ability to be writing towards something that was actually going to be a whole series was a really big lure.

But, you know, there's another group that really runs the show. It's very shadowy, just as you've described... Those of us in the Congress of the United States are window dressing.

One's ignorance is one's chief asset.