The language that we use now impacts on the ability to vote, it impacts on the marketplace; instead of making things clear, it makes it more confusing. I think we need to stop using neutral language and speak in straighter terms. So when you agree to something, you actually get what you agreed to in the first place.

The problem is that music is selfish in that you need to make it for yourself, so that you can give it away, and those two things don't jive. I needed to find the right reason to play that had the magic and mystery and excitement that made me want to play in the first place.

Looking for equality everywhere is a huge mistake because equals are terrible and boring. But a sense of fairness and justice is a totally different thing and a much more complex thing.

I got into guitar because no parent will buy their eight-year-old kid drums unless they're divorced and trying to get back at their wife. You know what I mean?

God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it.

I much prefer doing comedy. I get a little paranoid when the audience is not laughing.

Socialism is a fraud, a comedy, a phantom, a blackmail.

The serenity prayer, 'God grant me the strength to accept...' That's a prayer that's actually in my car. I say it every day.