If you really want to be part of something and you have that much passion towards it, you'll know enough to research it and find the history of it; and history is so important, history is everything.

I give everybody the benefit of the doubt. Anything you get into, you should research it and figure its roots and try to really be a real strong part of it.

I focus more on the music and my message; I'm not a party type of guy.

I'm not better then anyone because of what I do, who I am and where I come from.

To me, the lyrics mean more then the music, and that's the way it should always be.

People don't understand what term "selling out" means. To me selling out means if I were to stop doing this and go work for McDonald's then I would sell out.

We were all anti-Reagan, we were all politically-aware, we were all anti-war and things like that. These days a lot of the newer bands don't even really talk about that sort of stuff anymore.

Please lift your snowy skies off my soul -Your diamond dreams slice through my veins

Talent was not rare

As they sang the hobbit felt in love of beautiful things made by hands and by cunning and by magic moving through him, a fierce and a jealous love, the desire of the hearts of dwarves.

White stars don't mix with the dark blackness of the universe. If they did... everything would be grey

If you don't give inspiration an opportunity, it will never arrive.

I wouldn't want [my daughtr] to be a model. I don't think it's the best industry really for young girls. Unless you're really strong, it can really f**k you up.

Hire prudently, go slow and don’t go overboard.

Just as one must learn the art of killing in the training for violence, so one must learn the art of dying in the training for nonviolence.

There is no art without Eros.

Only a weak person needed someone else around all the time.