My job, is to show folks there's a lot of good music in this world, and if used right it may help to save the planet.

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.

You can coddle your rage, or you can fully engage.

Balance is not something you find, it's something you create

The history of the human race is the history of ordinary people who have overcome their fears and accomplished extraordinary things.

I haven't really ever had to audition for anything.

I find it very hard to say yes or no quite openly, because people are never satisfied. One day they write us off as saying we're not together and the next day we're together and getting married.

There are some things only intellectuals are crazy enough to believe.

There's an 800 kilometer border between Iran and Afghanistan.

Helmut Lang is an amazing man - always striving, always moving forward.

We cannot be too energetic in reminding our nihilists and positivists that this is a world of action and history.

Your words and thoughts have physical power.