What does censorship reveal? It reveals fear.

Every time we witness an injustice and do not act, we train our character to be passive in its presence and thereby eventually lose all ability to defend ourselves and those we love.

You have to start with the truth. The truth is the only way that we can get anywhere. Because any decision-making that is based upon lies or ignorance can't lead to a good conclusion.

One of the best ways to achieve justice is to expose injustice.

There is nothing new in this world other than the history that you don't know yet.

Wikileaks is a mechanism to maximize the flow of information to maximize the amount of action leading to just reform.

Sweden is the Saudi Arabia of feminism.

The only way to keep a secret is to never have one.

You can either be informed and your own rulers, or you can be ignorant and have someone else, who is not ignorant, rule over you.

If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature.

If we can only live once, let it be a daring adventure.

I believe that fiction with its untrammelled nature, speaks to no one, and by so doing, speaks to all.

Success is not a place at which one arrives but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.

For every good art critic there may be ten great artists.

I think once you've seen a song with a video, it limits your own mind's ability to read into it anything other than what you've seen.

The procrastinator is not only indolent and weak, but commonly, false, too; most of the weak are false.

Playing shows and making records keeps been getting easier and more fun.

In nature we find not only that which is expedient, but also everything which is not so inexpedient as to endanger the existence of the species.

No, I'm a man with a rule. People leave me alone, I leave them alone. If they don't, I don't.

Love means that everything is right with the world. Love and only love.

When you actually get successful, if you became a recognized director, people would let you come up with an idea for a video and they would let you do it.