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" I don't believe in trickle-down economics. I don't think that people who have the most are inclined to share it, generally. "

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" I'm partly obsessed by aging gracefully. "

" We have to be active about kindness and about peace. I've always fantasized that it would be great if there was a Department of Peace. "

" I'm familiar with that feeling of silence that comes with a very imminent catastrophe, when you know you have absolutely no control over a situation. "

" I want to figure out a way to not be stupid with money, then make a whole bunch of it, then I want to move to Outer Mongolia. I want to milk a yak. Maybe I'll just settle for a cow. "

" I've always been obsessed by visual art as I have been by music personally, but that doesn't mean anything professionally. "

" I find a therapy in playing music, in many different ways. "

" I definitely like the oddballs. There's a song called 'Little Thing,' which is the only song that I have recorded that has no words. And it's the one that I get past my critic inside me. "

" Good music is good music, and everything else can go to hell. "

" I don't think everything is going to get peachy ever. But I think we have to fight for what we believe in. "

" I think some people would say that I do overwhelm the words with the music, and sometimes thank goodness I do. "

" There's war - there's always been war, as long as most of us have been alive. There have always been people being abused, there's always been horrible things in the world. Why are we outraged? We should just be quiet and figure it out, and work it out together. "

" I'm a very vicious critic of myself. "

" When I look at how fortunate I've been, being a musician... my response to being overpaid is that I should pay it back to my community in some way. "

" The idea that we're somehow centrally important to the planet's existence is pretty comical - although I'd like us to be. "

" The idea of God as a fatherly figure who looks down on us and worries about how we're doing or takes sides when we have fights - it's more irritating than Santa Claus. The world and the universe are far more wonderful if there's not a puppet master. "

" Nothing is black or white, nothing's 'us or them.' But then there are magical, beautiful things in the world. There's incredible acts of kindness and bravery, and in the most unlikely places, and it gives you hope. "

" I fear that our true motivation is about oil and our own flailing economy; about the failure to destroy Al Qaeda and about revenge. "

" How could I have been anyone other than me? "

" The reason I play music is to touch people - for selfish reasons, as well. It feels good to make someone else feel something, whether it's a kiss, a painting, good idea or it's a song. "

" In so many areas of life, I'm a spaz and incompetent. "

" I found there's a fairly blatant racism in America that's already there, and I don't think I noticed it when I lived here as a kid. But when I went back to South Africa, and then it's sort of thrust in your face, and then came back here - I just see it everywhere. "

" I'm from a very politically and socially conscious family. My mother always made a point of making us look at what was going on around us and take stock of our part in it. "

" I never went to college - I barely got out of high school. "

" I use God in my songs a lot but I don't have a relationship. I don't know what that means. "

" Being able to scream at the top of my lungs in front of people is very therapeutic. It is a great gift for me to be able to do that. "

" When I write the set, I try to create something that will not only be interesting for the audience, but will have a flow for the band, too, so we don't get boring. "

" Well, I've been in a few car wrecks. "

" I do still get shocked every once in a while when I catch my reflection when I'm walking past a glass building, but it's in my mind about getting older and finding out what I'm going to look like as it unfolds - or as it folds, depending on where the marks and scars land. "

" If I find something I like, I'll chase it and see what comes out the other side. Once a song gets momentum and gets away from you, that's a good sign. "

" I can't believe that we would lie in our graves wondering if we had spent our living days well. I can't believe that we would lie in our graves dreaming of things that we might have been. "