When you're taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, then what value does that place on love?

Comedians have a huge carte blanche and the ability to get away with saying a lot of things.

I realized that I started writing songs to make people feel how I felt, rather than just making them feel something. That's not the way I should do things.

You should have to pass an IQ test before you breed. You have to take a driving test to operate vehicles and an SAT test to get into college. So why don’t you have to take some sort of test before you give birth to children? When I am President, that’s the first rule I will institute.

You have to be saved to get into heaven....you only have to be you to get into hell.

Mechanical Animals for me documents the repair of my emotions, the repair of my soul, and this record does deal with God in a different way. It deals with me finding God in art, and in music. I think there's more spirituality in art than you could find in a church

It's shocking to me that it's easier to buy a gun at Wal-Mart than it is to buy my record.