The most powerful music is music with purpose.

Paul Ryan's love for Rage Against The Machine is amusing, because he is the embodiment of the machine that our music has been raging against for two decades

A good song should make you wanna tap your foot and get with your girl. A great song should destroy cops and set fire to the suburbs. I'm only interested in writing great songs.

A musicians or artists responsibility is a simple one, and that is, through your music to tell the truth.

Music, I think, is best when it honestly explores personal demons, and it stirs around in the silt of the psyche to find out what's really there.

My music is made for the people who are willing to stand up to change this world themselves.

If aliens came down and challenged us to a Battle of the Bands to decide the fate of Planet Earth, I would feel very confident putting early Van Halen forward as our champion.

Bad presidents make for great music, and I'm gonna do my best to provide it.

When you wanna rock hard, children, lean on F#.

There's a lot of injustice in the world and it's what I sing about in my music and what I try to confront in my life as an activist.

Sacrifice and neon lights, Slaveships don't wait, Love many, trust few, And don't be late...

She kissed him tonight, just like she had the first time twelve years ago, with everything she had.

The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison.

I am in the prime of senility.

We are in the greatest danger of being run over when we have just gotten out of the way of a carriage.

Welcome to the real world, she said to me. Condescendingly. Take a seat. Take your life. Plot it out in black and white.

Love can attain what the intellect cannot fathom.

I know ours is a world made by men for men, their dictatorship is so ancient it even extends to language.

The art form is to become one with the hurdle, to make it your friend, and I embraced that process.

My greatest regret as a writer is that I've never been able to include as many jokes as I'd like.

Imagination at wit's end spreads its sad wings.