Quantitative methods are no more synonymous with objectivity than qualitative methods are synonymous with subjectivity.

If a person wants to be atheistic it's his God-given right to be an atheist.

We just wanna be the happy bums that we are. That's all.

That's one of the great things about touring. It makes you machinelike in a way that you can re-create this music not only in the right way but even better than when it was conceived.

Any idiot, any stockbroker can get out there and live out a fantasy and pretend like he's playing music. And I don't think there's anything wrong with that.

When you start to kind of immerse yourself in that improvisation culture, you gotta be comfortable enough with your instrument to throw yourself into a really potentially dangerous situation.

Diamanda Galás, the avant-weird performance artist... 'The devil's wife,' someone calls her. Faith No More loves Diamanda Galás.

If someone were to hire me for a film they'd be getting a certain kind of package, that's for sure, a certain set of tools. But I would listen to the director.

Stan Slaughter is the thoroughbred of the environmental educators I've hired. Second place is not even close.

I guess I'm getting to the age where a lot of other people my age have real jobs, and when they're hard-up they refer to an old-timer like me.

I am no one to be a purist.

You had this expression on your face, like you weren’t quite sure you were supposed to be on Earth.

I’m not aspiring to be someone else – If I’m me for the rest of my life then so be it

My dad was always playing music. Not, like, playing music but listening to music.

Sticking your head in the sand might make you feel safer, but it’s not going to protect you from the coming storm.

Everyone has to decide how they're going to appear in their lives, how they're going to put themselves out there to the world.

I can kind of fit the women's and the men's samples in a very similar way, just because of where my body is in my life, and I feel like it's modern to mix.

I am the fool, and must be the sufferer, if it be not of God.

West Africa today is just a quarry of paving stones for Hell, and those stones were cemented in place with

Leadership consists of character and strategy. If you can't have both, opt for character.

If I wasn't a singer, I'd be a bloodclaat revolutionary.