Rock stars are good at making noise.

In my dream, I was drowning my sorrows But my sorrows they learned to swim

The job of art is to chase ugliness away.

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

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.

At a certain point, I just felt, you know, God is not looking for alms, God is looking for action.

I wouldn't run for President. I wouldn't want to move to a smaller house.