This sort of behavior is left to the psychotic, dogmatic, fundamentalist believers you see on your TV everyday letting off bombs and killing people in the name of God. Beliefs are dangerous. Beliefs allow the mind to stop functioning. A non-functioning mind is clinically dead. Believe in nothing.
The trick is to use the drugs once to get there, and maybe spend the next ten years trying to get back there without the drug.
Life is too short not to create something with every breath we draw.
People have to follow their hearts, and if their hearts lead them to Wal-Mart, so be it.
Once you take yourself too seriously the art will suffer.
Music is about listening, the more you play, the more the magic spreads.
Just in general, any government throughout history hasn’t really wanted its people to be educated, because then they couldn’t control them as easily.
Every now and then, you get people who tend to forget what this country is about, which is a melting pot of races and cultures and freedom of speech.
You really should be able to feel the higher power of music and be moved by it, rather than listening to me waffle on and having to explain it.
We are eternal. All this pain is an illusion.
I believe that music is a force in itself. It is there and it needs an outlet, a medium. In a way, we are just the medium.
Because artists can be extremely eccentric and insane, and unfortunately, the people they hurt the most are the people that are closest to them.
I think there’s a reason why wine figures into so many religions. There’s something transcendent about it. It’s sort of the way that music is more than the sum of its parts. You have all these elements that make up the terroir that wine can communicate.
You can grow grapes in almost any part of the world. You just have to develop your palate enough to realize wine is an expression of the place where you make it. You don’t have to take over the world; just be an artist and express your area.
Shows are really strange. Sometimes you really don’t know what to expect.
Finding beauty in the dissonance.
If you take different mythologies from different cultures, the names may change and the story lines may vary but there is always something in common.
Recognize this as a holy gift and celebrate this chance to be alive and breathing.
I’m not an educated man. I only know what I’m told, and I’m not told that much; I have no frame of reference for how to place things in history be a responsible leader. All I can do is be an artist.
I just hope that our fans are people who are inspired by music, and just use our music as a background or inspiration for whatever it is they do.