You can argue with a philosopher, but you can’t argue with a good song. And I think I’ve got a few good songs.

Knowledge is a thing you can carry around with you, but you may not apply it. Some knowledge is indiscriminate, and it can be damaging. I recently found a wonderful definition of wisdom: It is that thing which results in the maximum good and the least harm.

If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, cause there's a million ways to be, you know that there are.

Can't keep it in, Gotta let it out.

I always knew looking back on my tears would bring me laughter, but I never knew looking back on my laughter would make me cry.

Salman Rushdie, indeed any writer who abuses the prophet or indeed any prophet under Islamic law, the sentence for that is actually death.

We need kids to remind us of how incredible this world is. People are increasingly losing their childhoods too soon, and that's a danger. There's a prophesy somewhere that at a certain point in history, children will be gray. It's weird to think about, but it's possible.