I don’t like the American media – particularly Fox.
Being sued by your own record company, that’s even better than receiving a Grammy.
Every wave is new until it breaks.
We have a thousand points of light for the homeless man. We’ve got a kinder gentler machine gun hand.
Long, flat expanses of professionalism bother me. I’d rather have a band that could explode at any time.
Did He give me the gift of love to say who I could choose? When God made me did He give me the gift of voice so some could silence me? Did he give me the gift of vision not knowing what I might see? Did he give me the gift of compassion to help my fellow man?
Learning from other people is what music is all about.
I am succeeding because people are talking about how they would do it better.
An idea discovered is much better possessed.
Faith builds the bridge from this old world to the new.
Ain’t singing for Pepsi, ain’t singing for Coke, I don’t sing for nobody, makes me look like a joke.
I don’t like war. I particularly don’t like the celebration of war, which I think the administration is a little bit guilty of.
Don’t think. The worst songs I’ve ever written happen when I think.
I was a Reagan backer. It was a shock for some people that I could agree with anything that man would say.
Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle for where we’re going. There’s something ahead worth fighting for.
Southern change gonna come at last! Now your crosses are burning fast, Southern Man.
It’s stupid to expect perfection from bands because afterall they’re just human beings.
It’s all very hazy to me now. I’m glad I made it through that stage. It got a little dicey. There were some drugs going on. I remember singing one song for about a day and a half.
That’s a defining moment, there, when someone plays an instrument that everyone relates to around the planet.
The person who builds a character makes foes.