Touring and putting out records is fun and cool, but I've been doing it for a long time.

Sometimes it's better to have a benign dictator than a dumb democracy, to be honest.

We first fought... in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.

I think music has the ability to inspire people and to change hearts, and the heart has the power to change the mind, and the mind has the power to change the world.

The living ideas of the dead are more powerful and effective than the dead ideas of the living.

Life is that perfect fine line between ironies.

Pretending that we live doesn't make us alive.

Civilization is a failure. We need to think what we can do together in love and peace.

Science fails to recognize the single most potent element of human existence...faith.

Awareness in our society has flipped all types of injustice on its head.

We have the power to change our lives, and the world around us.

It is a violation of trust to use your kids as caulking for the cracks in you.

We have minds that are equipped for certainty, linearity and short-term decisions, that must instead make long-term decisions in a non-linear, probabilistic world.

If you want to win a horse race, you need your horse to be 100%.

Congealed fat is pretty much the same, irrespective of the delicacy around which it is concealed.

I learned up less is more.The makeup used to wear me and now I wear the makeup.

Today is what the Lord has prepared you for.

Since music has never had a Rembrandt, we have remained nothing more than musicians.

You're gambling with something vital. Most writers get smashed egos.

The experimentation that I do has a lot to do with tunes and pitches and ways that melodies are put together.

I'm a drummer. I can count to four and repeat.