Music does affect your opinions. Plato is supposed to have said "It's very dangerous to allow the wrong kind of music into the republic."

I want to turn the clock back to when people lived in small villages and took care of each other.

Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't.

Some of my ancestors were religious dissenters who came to America over three hundred years ago. Others were abolitionists in New England in the eighteen forties and fifties.

It's a very important thing to learn to talk to people you disagree with.

I tell kids, don't trust the media. The media with their emphasis on fame is helping to destroy this country, helping destroy the human race. It's the plug-in drug.

Shh. Listen to the sounds that surround you. Notice the pitches, the volume, the timbre, the many lines of counterpoint. As light taught Monet to paint, the earth may be teaching you music.

Songs are funny things. They can slip across borders. Proliferate in prisons. Penetrate hard shells. I always believed that the right song at the right moment could change history.

This world is so full of hypocrisy, the only way you can be honest is to be a hermit.

Long live teachers of children, because they can show children how they can save the world.

If it can’t be reduced, reused, repaired, rebuilt, refurbished, refinished, resold, recycled or composted, then it should be restricted, redesigned or removed from production.

Gnostic tales tell of the homesickness of the soul, its yearning for its own milieu…

wear flannel next to your skin, and never believe in eternal punishment.

For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.

Luck is the grand equalizer.

Art is a subset of creativity.

I've been singing my whole life and I've always wanted to be able to pursue a music career.

The hunger for applause is the source for all conscious literature and heroism

You put the life in your belly and you live.

We now have a satisfactory solution not only to coalition forces, but also to the Iraqi authorities themselves.

If the kingdom of God is not first, it doesn't matter what's second.