Essentially, I'm a very real person; good and bad. And the public image is one of being very good, I suppose. But one of the reasons I'm attracted to people like Martin Luther King, Jr., Gandhi, Christ, to pacifism, is because naturally, I'm the guy that would not turn the other cheek - but, when people see you're attracted to that, they think you are that.

Selling out is doing something you don't really want to do for money. That's what selling out is.

I love America and I hate it. I'm torn between the two. I have two conflicting visions of America. One is a kind of dream landscape and the other is a kind of black comedy.

The great moments of rock 'n' roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.

It is impossible to meet God without abandon, without exposing yourself, being raw.

Overcoming my dad telling me that I could never amount to anything is what has made me the megalomaniac that you see today.

Whenever I see grace, I’m moved.