Nothing I've ever written has been motivated by trying to impact or influence anybody.

I think love lyrics have contributed to the general aura of bad mental health in America.

. . . behind each breakaway movement is a breakaway demagogue who will set up his breakaway demagogue government.

A drug is not bad. A drug is a chemical compound. The problem comes in when people who take drugs treat them like a license to behave like an asshole.

Power will be maintained by the groovy guy or gal who gets the most media coverage for his sleaze. Naturally, his friends in various businesses will do okay, too.

Anybody who wants religion is welcome to it, as far as I'm concerned--I support your right to enjoy it. However, I would appreciate it if you exhibited more respect for the rights of those people who do not wish to share your dogma, rapture, or necrodestination.

Everything on this planet has something to do with music. Music functions in the realm of sculptured air.