The next album I make might be the most messed up thing ever. It's all momentary for me.

Heed not Mephistopheles, my children, lest you suffer eternal damnation. When he whispers in your ear, turn away your head and hearken instead to the angel on your shoulder.

Be good. Do good. The devil wields no power over a good man.

Trying to say something is all you got in life.

The likelihood of one individual being right increases in direct proportion to the intensity to which others are trying to prove him wrong.

Not all people are ready to accept psychiatry as a normal branch of medicine. The general impression, as I believe, is that a man who needs a psychiatrist must be crazy.

Some of the best records are the ones that really affect you the most - they're pure emotion and energy, and it's like you're in that person's brain. It's pretty cool.

All these kids who are growing up on Skrillex and all this digital music- what are they gonna think when they hear rock'n'roll?

Well, there are some who claim I'm more of one nation than another, but that's not true, Eddie. I'm of all nations, I play no favorites.

What excites me is the idea of doing a record that's pretty clean and focused on songs. I've rushed a lot with previous albums and there's not a rush now - it's not a race.

Everyone uses noise as a crutch sometimes - I've totally done it. But when you make a good-sounding record there's nothing there but you.

I had a polynomial once. My doctor removed it.

It's your heart. No one else gets a say in that.

a silent night. - the most eloquent poem i have ever read.

Stunt dwarf or destroy the imagination of a child and you have taken away its chances of success in life. Imagination transforms the commonplace into the great and creates the new out of the old.

It is not that things always work out the way you want them to but you must remember that God is always with you

politics ... is the hottest, most dangerous subject in the land. It's not only a conversation-wrecker, it's a friendship-wrecker, a family-wrecker, a job-wrecker, a future-wrecker.

Fear will bind you closer than love, or hate, and it works a hell of a lot quicker.

The habit of prayer communicates a penetrating sweetness to the glance, the voice, the smile, the tears,--to all one says, or does, or writes.

Silence is one of the deepest Disciplines of the Spirit, simply because it puts the stopper on all self-justificat ion

When truth is evident, it is impossible for parties and factions to rise. There never has been a dispute as to whether there is daylight at noon.