The most important thing about music that I've learned after all this time is that to me, it's a way of reaching the truth.

Sometimes a good love song can change the world and create positive energy more than any political song can.

With rock music, the amount of power that you can generate, the intensity behind the intentions of your lyrics that you can really reflect through rock music - you can't do that in jazz. You can't do that with classical.

The most important thing about music that I've learned after all this time is that to me, it's a way of reaching the truth.

Day is just a collection of hours.

Sometimes it's better to have a benign dictator than a dumb democracy, to be honest.

Nations are like people. Once you understand the interactions between nations, it's easy to understand why things are done, in terms of foreign policy, in a certain way. But nations are not like people in the sense that we are cumulatively represented by others - and their interpretations of what our interests are may not be the same as what they really are. And that's what's dangerous, even in a democracy.