When you wanna rock hard, children, lean on F#.

Paul Ryan's love for Rage Against The Machine is amusing, because he is the embodiment of the machine that our music has been raging against for two decades

A good song should make you wanna tap your foot and get with your girl. A great song should destroy cops and set fire to the suburbs. I'm only interested in writing great songs.

A musicians or artists responsibility is a simple one, and that is, through your music to tell the truth.

Music, I think, is best when it honestly explores personal demons, and it stirs around in the silt of the psyche to find out what's really there.

My music is made for the people who are willing to stand up to change this world themselves.

If aliens came down and challenged us to a Battle of the Bands to decide the fate of Planet Earth, I would feel very confident putting early Van Halen forward as our champion.

Bad presidents make for great music, and I'm gonna do my best to provide it.

There's a lot of injustice in the world and it's what I sing about in my music and what I try to confront in my life as an activist.

Sacrifice and neon lights, Slaveships don't wait, Love many, trust few, And don't be late...

Music and the arts feed our souls, but a decent wage puts food on the table. Musicians, fans of music, and grassroots political organizations are a potent force to fight for social justice.

It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write.

Really, the novelist has the best casting since he doesn't have to cope with the actors and all the rest. -Alfred Hitchcock

Damned, damned be the rich! May not even their fingernails be left!... I'm sure that they are going to Hell head-first.

Wales was in ancient times divided into three parts nearly equal, consideration having been paid, in this division, more to the value than to the just quantity or proportion of territory.

A cylinder of air reaching to the top of the atmosphere is of equal weight with a cylinder of water about 33 feet high.

Drug prices are a problem. Access is a problem.

Women tend to take care of men a lot, but I like a guy who balances that out and takes care of me, too.

It's not because I've -what is the phrase? -'swept you off your feet' by my -er- ardor?

The Tories win elections when they lead on economic competence.