“The computer can’t tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what’s missing is the eyebrows.”

Music is the most physically inspiring of all the arts.

I don’t want to spend my life explaining myself. You either get it, or you don’t.

Stupidity has a certain charm – ignorance does not.

A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.

If you pick up a guitar and it says, ‘take me, I’m yours,’ then that’s the one for you.

There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.

So many books, so little time.

May your shit come to life and kiss you on the face.

Republican is fine, if your a millionaire. Democrats is fair, if all you own is what you wear. Neither of them’s really right, cause neither of them care.

Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is the best.

Modern music is people who can’t think signing artists who can’t write songs to make records for people who can’t hear.

The first thing you have to do if you want to raise nice kids, is you have to talk to them like they are people instead of talking to them like they’re property.

The richest people in the world aren’t particularly smart or happy. And the happiest people in the world aren’t particularly smart or rich. That leaves me making music. But we can’t talk about that.

Science is moving closer to weaponry, and Art is moving closer to commercialism. And never the twain shall meet.

My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can.

I’m not black, but there’s a whole lot of times I wish I could say I’m not white.