It's the whole Nietzche philosophy of you are your own God. That's why I debase myself in the concerts and tell people to spit on me. I'm saying to them 'You are no different from me'.

Black eyeliner. It’s standard. It’s all you need. It just makes the world a better place.

You get depressed because you know that you're not what you should be.

You have to be saved to get into heaven....you only have to be you to get into hell.

If you want to find out who your real friends are, sink the ship. The first ones to jump aren't your friends.

Music is the strongest form of magic.

When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed.

We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.

The imagination is precious. Don't lose it. Don't lose the child in you.

People are too lazy and too stupid to think for themselves that we've got sitcoms with canned laughter that lets you know when to laugh if you're too stupid to know when the joke is.

I don't think we should ever regret anything we do. I think we have to accept the consequences and you learn from your mistakes, and that's how you grow as a person

A negative habit is a matter of frequent negative thoughts and beliefs in one's mind, but never a result of the complexion of one's skin.

The global environment crisis is, as we say in Tennessee, real as rain, and I cannot stand the thought of leaving my children with a degraded earth and a diminished future.

Gold was an objective value, an equivalent of wealth produced. Paper is a mortgage on wealth that does not exist, backed by a gun aimed at those who are expected to produce it.

That's what I am; I'm a drip. You still get hydrated, you still get your nutrients, just a little at a damn time.

Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.

When you grow up in America things like Christianity waters down your feeling... When you're taught to love everybody, taught to love you're enemies, what value does that put on love?

Perfection is no small thing, but it is made up of small things.

Most composers and arrangers these days use computer programs and keyboards, but I'm one of those dinosaurs that still writes it down on score paper and still dreams it up in his ear first.

I covet truth; beauty is unripe childhood's cheat; I leave it behind with the games of youth.

There is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.