For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.

You notice how liberals keep saying, ‚If only Islam would have a Reformation‘ – it can’t have one. It says it can’t. It’s extremely dangerous in that way.

Obviously, the cinematography of films is art, just as a still shot can be art. If I’m watching a Wes Anderson movie, the colour palettes alone, and the way they’re painted, could be art. With music, you’re a little bit limited, of course, because it’s only audio.

I’m the king of the anthems.

What we have found in this country, and maybe we’re more aware of it now, is one problem that we’ve had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice.

Government actually grew during the Reagan years.

No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.

Every band I’ve worked with also wants to be countercultural in the sense that they want to feel that they’ve gone somewhere that nobody else has been.

When I got to New York City when I was 18, I started playing in clubs in Brooklyn – I have good friends and devoted fans on the underground scene, but we were playing for each other at that point – and that was it.

Morality arose largely as an empirical defence of the individual and society. Ever since intelligent beings began to be in contact, and consequently in friction, they have felt the need to guard themselves against each other’s encroachments.

It’s the poorer people in tropical zones who will get really hit by climate change – as well as some ecosystems, which nobody wants to see disappear.

No, I’m not a French designer either. I’m from nowhere. I’m a European, old European is all I am.

I am a Christian and a Democrat, that’s all.

If you play an instrument, it makes you a better singer. The more you play, the better you sing, the more you sing, the better you play.

All my records and videos were groundbreaking.

I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics are not so far apart in America. They are both a means to the same end, which is victory… And why not? Victory is good for you, and don’t let anybody tell you different.

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.

I don’t think even ungodly people realize what a society would be like that had no godly influence at all.

Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.

I’ve accomplished enough with the music that I haven’t had to go out there and do other things to over-saturate.

Barack Obama would not be President if he were dark skin. You know what I mean? That’s just the truth. I might not be as successful as I am now if I was dark skin.

In South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, you’ve become a baby again and the rest of your life should be totally about joy and happiness, and people should leave you alone, and I just think that that’s the height of intelligence.

In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society.

History shows us that in times of people feeling like they are in need of some sort of rebellion or protests, the artists rise because the poetry we create about pain and its relationship to culture in the world begins to soothe and heal people who are feeling confused or afraid.

The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.

If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.

There’s always gonna be rock n‘ roll bands, there’s always gonna be kids that love rock n‘ roll records, and there will always be rock n‘ roll.

I don’t think I’d ever make an album of just covers because I love writing my own music.

If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as you keep working at it and don’t back down.

You can’t move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn’t mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.

A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.

I really love Linkin Park, and I loved Chester Bennington, and it is horrible what happened to him. I grew up listening to him because my dad would make these mixtapes with a lot of different artists – Linkin Park, Avril Lavigne, The Beatles, Sarah McLachlan, I just really loved Linkin Park, and their production is really sick.

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.

I just use fashion as an excuse to talk about politics. Because I’m a fashion designer, it gives me a voice, which is really good.

There’s only one person in this race who will be there, who’s always been there for you, and that’s Hillary Clinton’s life story.

The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

I always hated how I looked on camera. I never put a face to my music, which actually made the music that much more mysterious.

I’m the president of the United States. I’m not the emperor of the United States.

You can tell the tree by the fruit it bears. You see it through what the organization is delivering as far as a concrete program. If the tree’s fruit sours or grows brackish, then the time has come to chop it down – bury it and walk over it and plant new seeds.

Work is that which you dislike doing but perform for the sake of external rewards. At school, this takes the form of grades. In society, it means money, status, privilege.

No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to.

I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.

Political courage is not political suicide.

We have the resources to build room for a trillion humans in this solar system, and when we have a trillion humans, we’ll have a thousand Einsteins and a thousand Mozarts. It will be a way more interesting place to live.

You go to a festival, you know you’re not going to play all new material at a festival. The audience is not there for that. I’ve made that mistake, but you find out pretty quickly.

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.

I like being able to be on the inside of music, rather than on the outside listening to it.

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.

I’m a singer, not a politician, and I think you don’t want the two to get confused. It’s not OK to be on CNN talking about people starving and then tell the interviewer that your new album is coming out in six months.

If it’s illegal to rock and roll, throw my ass in jail!

I’ve been asking myself: ‚Why put together these things – CDs, albums?‘ The answer I came up with is, well, sometimes it’s artistically viable. It’s not just a random collection of songs. Sometimes the songs have a common thread, even if it’s not obvious or even conscious on the artists‘ part.

The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.

In December, I agreed to extend the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans because it was the only way I could prevent a tax hike on middle-class Americans. But we cannot afford $1 trillion worth of tax cuts for every millionaire and billionaire in our society. We can’t afford it. And I refuse to renew them again.

This thing that I do with caring about the message in my music, it’s not separate from my work as a commercial artist; they’re totally one and the same. I’m always going to be thinking about what my voice means.

When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before.

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Music is one of the most powerful things the world has to offer. No matter what race or religion or nationality or sexual orientation or gender that you are, it has the power to unite us.