“I don’t believe in censorship, but I do believe that an artist has to take some moral responsibility for what he or she is putting out there.”

We don’t really make bad records, though some people might like some more than others. And we have never really done a bad show. So I think in a way maybe we’ve been taken for granted.

When you get older, your health becomes important to you, things start breaking down, you’ve always got a different ache or pain.

I have turned down a lot of money for things that would have made me feel cheesy.

I’m barely prolific and incredibly lazy.

Some grow young, some grow cold.

I developed a problem with authority. Any time that authority was what I interpreted as being unjust, I stood up to it, and that became my personality.

The waiting is the hardest part, every day you get one more yard. You take it on faith, you take it to the heart, the waiting is hardest part.

Good loving is hard to find, you got lucky babe, when I found you.

I think it’s important to always offer something new.

You get in there, you get the job done and you get the hell out.

Gonna wind it up on my guitar. Gonna make that silver sing.

Oh yeah, alright, take it easy baby, make it last all night. She was an American Girl.

Lord, please watch over all these lost children born to chase the hurricane.

I think for it to be hip to be idealistic is weird, you know? I mean, even all the best rebels to me, had some sense of hope in them.

I’ve never had any idea that what I like would resonate with the audience, and I’m pleasantly surprised when it does.

That’s stupid. You couldn’t pay me to go. I’m not oversimplifying it. That’s what’s going on. I don’t think it would be any fun without the drugs. It’s a drug party.

Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.

Each one of us matters, has a role to play, and makes a difference. Each one of us must take responsibility for our own lives, and above all, show respect and love for living things around us, especially each other.

Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.

The only rule is, do what you really, impulsively, wish to do. But always act on your own responsibility, sincerely. And have the courage of your own strong emotion.

There cannot be true democracy unless women’s voices are heard. There cannot be true democracy unless women are given the opportunity to take responsibility for their own lives.

A love that left people alone in their guilt would not have real people as its object. So, in vicarious responsibility for people, and in His love for real human beings, Jesus becomes the one burdened by guilt.

Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.

I have thought it my duty to exhibit things as they are, not as they ought to be.