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.

On Saturday afternoons when all the things are done in the house and there’s no real work to be done, I play Bach and Chopin and turn it up real loudly and get a good bottle of chardonnay and sit out on my deck and look out at the garden.

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.

Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.

Traditions are a common part of our lives. They can be good, and not all traditions are wrong, but sometimes they can take the joy out of life.

You create a community with music, not just at concerts but by talking about it with your friends.

I think ‚Invisible‘ is a great song, but I don’t know how accessible it is.

I think that the idea of having a different approach to every single one of my albums is so exciting to me. I never want to make the same record twice. Why do it? What’s the point?

Democracy don’t rule the world, You’d better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that’s better left unsaid.

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

The trouble with Nixon is that he’s a serious politics junkie. He’s totally hooked and like any other junkie, he’s a bummer to have around, especially as President.

Contrary to popular belief, I don’t spend a whole lot of time following soccer. But as I have traveled around the world to better understand global development and health, I’ve learned that soccer is truly universal. No matter where I go, that’s what kids are playing. That’s what people are talking about.

A lot of the things that will really improve the world fortunately aren’t dependent on Washington doing something different.

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

We need to pass comprehensive immigration reform, period.

I would drive to gigs in my tiny little Fiat. I would shoot up and down the M1 to play at various places.

Lincoln said you cannot be President without spending some item on your knees. I have repeated that and a bunch of Atheists got all over me. Wait a minute. Does that mean that you cannot be President if you are an Atheist? I say yea that does mean that.

All great change in America begins at the dinner table.

I’d always somehow felt slightly as if I’d been born in the wrong country.

Gray Davis can run a dirty campaign better than anyone, but he can’t run a state.

There’s something about pulling out a real tape from a shelf and looking at it and knowing that ‚Everlong‘ is on it, or ‚Best of You‘ is on it, and it’s really special.

I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.

I would rather drink weedkiller than support Obamacare.

Songs don’t have to be about going out on Saturday night and having a good rink-up and driving home and crashing cars. A lot of what I’ve done is about alienation… about where you fit in society.

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

It’s not just a matter of whether you support Obama or Romney. It’s who they have coming with them. I always keep my powder dry, as they say in the military.

Progressively saved by the machine from the anxieties that bound his hands and mind to material toil, relieved of a large part of his work and compelled to an ever-increasing speed of action by the devices which his intelligence cannot help ceaselessly creating and perfecting, man is about to find himself abruptly plunged into idleness.

Excessive literary production is a social offense.

Tupac, Biggie, Jay. Your usual suspects. These were the people that was played in my household.

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.

I wanted to be famous for my music and my talent, and I always wished I could cut it out when I left the stage.

The whole slacker generation totally didn’t apply to us musically.

An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.

I get a thrill meeting kids who are into alternative music.

No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.

I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music – which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there’s no dream that’s too big.

Great countries are those that produce great people.

Every band I’ve worked with also wants to be countercultural in the sense that they want to feel that they’ve gone somewhere that nobody else has been.

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

If it’s illegal to rock and roll, throw my ass in jail!

I’m trying to make God more relevant in our society. And I think talking in everyday terms and making sure people can understand it – I think that’s important.

I know black people love the idea that we finally have a beautiful, good-looking black president. But if he is doing awful things to us, we should wake up.

I still wanna rap better than everybody else, and I wanna say important things.

The most impactful dollars that Australia can spend are actually what goes to help the poorest.

I believed what my father taught me about the separation of church and state, so when I was President I never invited Billy Graham to have services in the White House because I didn’t think that was appropriate. He was injured a little bit, until I explained it to him.

I’m thrilled to have Corona join me on my ‚X100PRE‘ Tour to give my fans a taste of Corona Estereo Beach and showcase their support of Latin music. It’s not solely about the music – it’s about the culture, creativity, and contributing to the movement that connects us all together.

For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: ‚If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?‘ And whenever the answer has been ‚No‘ for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

Free government is the most difficult of all government. But it is everlastingly true that the plain people will make fewer mistakes than any other group of men, no matter how powerful.

I’ve made sure that in any situation and with any record label, I’m allowed to write my own music.

The United States tyrannizes and pillages the globalized world with its political, economic, technological, and military might.

I love artists like Prince, who hold on to that element of mystery.

So many girls come up and say to me, ‚I have never listened to country music in my life. I didn’t even know my town had a country-music station. Then I got your record, and now I’m obsessed.‘ That’s the coolest compliment to me.

Once you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I know which one I’m taking with me when I go.

Sitting on a bedroom floor crying is something that makes you feel really alone. If someone’s singing about that feeling, you feel bonded to that person.