Recorded music has always been in a sense promotion for live performance, and some artists have discovered that giving it away is as effective as trying to sell it.

Most people outside of America won't get it. It's the Easter bunny. It's another lie and I don't understand why we had to invent this character.

So I don't think I'm gonna pull my head into my shell just because a bunch of people start acting like idiots.

I know that I could make this world peaceful and calm, if I only could get my hands on a hydrogen bomb.

Love between the ugly, is the most beautiful love of all

People who have memorized your songs-how can you not love them?

There must be a God because he made me.

It seems like a totally gratuitous myth to tell people a giant rabbit comes round at night leaving candy in a haphazard way around the house... and the cover shows the bunny caught in the act.

Look upon yourself only with compassion.

If you will, then you will, for nothing can withstand your will. As your faith is, so you are, where your mind is there you are.

Today I saw a car crush my little dog under it's wheel.

I don't think religious profiling or ethnic profiling is permissible, period. That is using religion or ethnicity as a proxy for suspicion. It just doesn't make any sense.

My grandfather, in 1848, had fled from Germany to find political freedom in the United States.

Once people get hung up on theology, they've lost sanity forever.

Once you're dead, you're made for life.

It's said that if two documentary filmmakers meet they talk about the world, if two fiction filmmakers meet they talk about the million that they don't have to make their film.

If you score against the Italians you deserve a goal.

To make a movie is very grueling at times. Long, long hours and cold weather.

It's just hard to say, "Well, I do this, which means this." If I'm telling you exactly who I am, then there's nothing for the audience to say.

It's like the more money we come across / the more problems we see.