We delude ourselves into believing that morality comes from somewhere else, whereas in reality we behave as we've been told to behave.

I don't think anyone is going to Hell, because it only exists in the minds of people who wish ill will on others.

there is no such thing as hell but you can make it if you try

Unfortunately, the average guy on the street believes that studying evolution leads to atheism.

I've written almost 200 songs with Bad Religion. No matter where you look in our history, the focus has been trying to instill some of these disturbing realities about the world, some of the implications of evolution into an artistic format that can be interpreted by people who may never study evolution.

I was in a choir as a kid. It was from those early days that my outlook on harmonies and arrangements were nurtured. I always took that with me, even on the earliest Bad Religion record, which strangely was only about six years after that.

I have great hope and faith, but it's a humanistic faith based in facts; you have to believe that facts exist. We can all arrive at the same facts if we engage in the process of experimentation, observation, and verification, which can solve more of the world's major problems than a debate over whether God does or doesn't exist.