You're always cursing, you're always praying and you're always making love. It ain't do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti-do.

There is no greater reward than working from your heart and making a difference in the world.

The energy of devils and angels is the same energy; it's how you use it. It's fuel. There is a saying: If you scare all your devils away, the angels will go away with them. You know, the halo and the horns are the same thing. I mean it's OK to be spiritually horny - that's what creative genius is all about. Geniuses don't have time to think about how it's going to be received... they don't have time to think whether people like it or not, is it morally right, will God like it?

The worst thing you can become in life is cynical. Cynical is like concrete. and nothing grows in concrete.

The people of Arizona, the people of Atlanta, Georgia, you should be ashamed of yourselves.

All music is important if it comes from the heart.

If our history can challenge the next wave of musicians to keep moving and changing, to keep spiritually hungry and horny, that's what it's all about.