We need a day of the dead. That's a perfect celebration.

Before you can make good music, you just have to shut up. Then the music can say what it has to say.

I don't mind what the market is, but why is it vapid? If they're such a bunch of idiots, why don't you show them good music instead? They're not going to know the difference.

I guess I'll just slip into the studio after the next time with the Muses, and then just keel over and die.

No drug is a cure, though. Drugs are just big pieces of tape they stick over warning lights.

Popular music sucks so bad right now.

Nirvana was pop. You can have distorted guitars and people say it's alternative, but you can't break out of pop music's constructs and still get extensive radio play and media coverage.

I've always chosen my band members based on their sense of humor. It might sound stupid, but it means not only are they fun to live with on a tour bus for years, but humor implies intelligence.

My brother and I were meditating before we were 6 years old, having to stare at the wall and chant.

Good taste - that's all you really need when you're playing an instrument.

I have to play as much of the game as I allow myself to get the music heard. But it's not unlike the rest of the world, so I'm not as up in arms about it as I could be.

Indeed, organizing atheists has been compared to herding cats, because they tend to think independently and will not conform to authority.

There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.

Superstar was made so early in my career I had nothing to do with it at all. The first time I saw it was the opening screening.

If you have a boat and a happy marriage, you don't need another thing.

Mystery is more important than knowledge.

Deciding what to be is more important than deciding what to do.

Ive been criticised for pretty, smiley photographs, but at least someone is happy! In my mind, I am always giving the image to the sitter.

Who gives to friends so much from Fate secures, That is the only wealth for ever yours. [Lat., Extra fortunam est, quidquid donatur amicis; Quas dederis, selas semper habebis opes.]

I do hope that some of my dissents will one day be the law.

Let your face speak what's in your heart.