Social media is the empowerment of the individual at the expense of the system.

Social media is addictive precisely because it gives us something which the real world lacks: it gives us immediacy, direction, a sense of clarity and value as an individual.

The web and its technologies are digital representations of everything we did before in a more private, bigger, faster and more empowering format than ever before.

I am intrigued by the smile upon your face, and the sadness within your eyes

We can live out our lives, and in the end realize that we never really ‘lived’ a day in our lives.

No amount of money can fill your heart up with what kindness and compassion can.

...it is a sneaking piece of cowardice for authors to put feigned names to their works, as if, like bastards of their brain, they were afraid to own them.

I started smoking as soon as I went on the stage. I'd make cigars out of the Morning World when I was a kid.

I'm so grateful this day has ended well.

There is a direct connection between violence against the Earth and violence against women.

The history of a movement, the history of a nation, the history of a race is the guide-post of that movement's destiny, that nation's destiny, that race's destiny.

Be someone's best friend and be there when he or she needs you.

I think I'm more effective as an activist if I stay in music, to be honest. Music, the way it reaches people and transcends divisions, is a really effective and powerful forum.