For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

I do like Burial; he’s so curiously clumsy, you can’t help but be moved. It’s so un-Hollywood, and the rhythms are so un-danceable.

Israelis would mostly breathe a sigh of relief if Palestinians were to disappear.

If I’m gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That’s how it works.

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

I don’t see any possibility of Britain and the U.S. allowing a sovereign independent Iraq; that’s almost inconceivable.

The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.

Look, when you’re the president, there’s all kinds of things said about us. I mean, it’s just the nature of the job.

Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.

I do probably 60 concerts a year in the States. And I go out to clubs in the week. I’m doing new stuff all the time.

The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.

I have decided in 2020 to run for president.

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

You can’t do something forever.

I say, ‚Yeah, Taylor Swift.‘ I think she is a smart, beautiful girl. I think she’s making all the right moves. She’s got a good head on her shoulders. She’s surrounded with wonderful people. Her songs are great. She keeps herself anchored. She knows who she is, and she’s living and standing by that.

I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.

When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before.

In the end, that’s what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?

My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.

I never listen to the radio unless I rent a car.

A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.

I don’t know the law, the kind of law of quantity and quality, but I think the opportunity of people being able to express themselves and to have the means of production is a great thing. It’s also changing how we’re telling stories.

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

I don’t want to express my opinion about actual politics, because if I do, I have to be responsible for my decision.

The New Deal repudiation of democracy has left the Republican Party alone the guardian of the Ark of the Covenant with its charter of freedom.

Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen. They’re my biggest heroes. I love everything about Leonard Cohen: his lyrics and his voice. He seems like a really clever man, and Bob Dylan does as well. He’s just really cool.

My goal in music is to create nostalgic moments.

If you’re going to change things, you have to be with the people who hold the levers.

I want my fans to love themselves. It’s almost like I want to hypnotize them so when they hear my music they love themselves instantly.

For my part, I desire to see the time when education – and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry – shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified to have it in my power to contribute something to the advancement of any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate the happy period.

They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.

Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.

I don’t think I’d ever make an album of just covers because I love writing my own music.

All of my songs are autobiographical.

Music is the melody whose text is the world.

There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we’d all love one another.

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

I’m not a conservative of any kind.

Neil Young is my hero, and such a great example. You know what that guy has been doing for the past 40 years? Making music. That’s what that guy does. Sometimes you pay attention, sometimes you don’t. Sometimes he hands it to you, sometimes he keeps it to himself. He’s a good man with a beautiful family and wonderful life.

I really started writing music to challenge myself, to see what I could write.

At the end of the day, who I really and truly am is a little girl who loved to play the piano.

The fact is that when you do something from your heart, you leave a heart print.

Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.

A candidate is not going to suddenly change once they get into office. Just the opposite, in fact. Because the minute that individual takes that oath, they are under the hottest, harshest light there is. And there is no way to hide who they really are.

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

It was always a plan that we were going to have a retail side with what were doing musically, like an Apple store or Nike Town. I wanted something where you can come get everything – ‚Marathon‘ or ‚All Money‘ or ‚Crenshaw‘ – and make it like an experience. Especially with what Crenshaw and Slauson meant to my story.

Compton got such a legacy in hip-hop.

The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.

Rhythm is something you either have or don’t have, but when you have it, you have it all over.

Environment is very important to me. Sometimes I have to perform during the day for festivals, and my music does not work in the daytime. It is nighttime music.

I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.

I definitely think, generally, rap is misogynistic.

Nothing recedes like progress.

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.

I love being a part of the country-music community.