There's an inherent thing in me where, if things are going too smooth, I'll sabotage the hell out of them just to make the music more of a sanctuary.

I wrote... Neon Ballroom in that time where I hated music, really everything about it, I hated it.

None of us are really dumb and none of us are really smart. We're in the middle.

You say that money isn't everything, well I'd like to see you live without it.

Yes, I am old enough to grow a beard actually. So ner-ner-ner-ner

There are no big groupie fans or anything.

So I went and visited a doctor and he diagnosed me with reactive arthritis.

I am very scared of being outside my home for long periods of time.

I start sweating and shaking and having panic attacks if I am not at home.

I get very anxious and am scared in crowds and things like that.

I'm lucky the arthritis happened at the time that it did because of the record.

You don’t read to exercise the mind but to take voyages

Most people just ‘hope’ to meet their targets, while few have clear and strong intention hence they achieve it.

After all, hope is a form of planning.

Do you want a world with . . . more joy and happiness? Then find your own joy and happiness and contribute to the joy and happiness of others.

The UN's unique legitimacy flows from a universal perception that it pursues a larger purpose than the interests of one country or a small group of countries.

The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster.

If you put your personal stories out there people always connect.

You awful hard to kill, Anita.' 'There's a first time, Luther, and that's all it takes.

I met the Santana band when I was 14. By the time I was 15, I was a member of the band.

It is perfectly consistent - and also true - to say that the world poverty problem today is smaller (relative to world population) than before and yet also a much graver injustice.