Innovation can only occur where you can breathe free.

Every man I meet is in some way my superior.

Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.

Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery.

When I got depressed, I watched Bruce Lee movies. I learned everything from Bruce Lee.

I criticize by creation – not by finding fault.

There are many things I do where the centre of it is… It’s almost more my humanitarian work than art.

I think maybe people see bands and musicians as some sort of superhero unrealistic sport that happens in another dimension where it’s not real people and not real emotions. So, I grew up listening to Beatles records on my floor. That’s how I learned how to play guitar. If it weren’t for them, I wouldn’t be a musician.

A good thing to remember is somebody’s got it a lot worse than we do.

Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.

Silicon Valley has some of the smartest engineers and technology business people in the world.

Whatever has happened in my quest for innovation has been part of my quest for immaculate reality.

Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which, throughout his lifetime, he draws what he is, and what he says. When the source dries up, the work withers and crumbles.

Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.

All experience is an arch, to build upon.

Eventually, all companies are replaced.

From things that have happened and from things as they exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, you make something through your invention that is not a representation but a whole new thing truer than anything true and alive, and you make it alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality.

I don’t like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can’t do it.

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

I can’t see myself singing the same song twice in a row. That’s terrible.

I kinda like the idea of having an album that’s all me.

Cast away your sloth, your lethargy, your coldness, or whatever interferes with your chaste and pure love for Christ, your soul’s husband. Make Him the source, the center, and the circumference of all your soul’s range of delight.

For me, being raised in a free America made all the difference.

Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.

If you hear a voice within you say ‚you cannot paint,‘ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

California has a special relationship with the Internet. Many of the core technologies that power the Internet were invented here. Many of the most successful online entrepreneurs and content creators – in business, the arts, and countless other endeavors – got their start here.

There have to be reasons that you get up in the morning and you want to live. Why do you want to live? What’s the point? What inspires you? What do you love about the future? If the future does not include being out there among the stars and being a multi-planet species, I find that incredibly depressing.

But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it’s all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can’t change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.

Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.

A people free to choose will always choose peace.

We all have a tendency to avoid our weaknesses. When we do that, we never progress or get any better.

Metal, I love metal sounds. If I have a stick with me, I just drag it across a fence. And all fences make different sounds, just like people when they laugh.

Most of my songs have names of people I’ve met or are dear to me. There are people who have privacy issues and about people knowing about their private life. But for me, I like to include few special names and few details about them to make the song very special to me.

We’re all dreamers.

I love to watch videos, and I’ve always liked to film and take pictures. I have an eye for really weird things that nobody thinks about. I used to make little movies about myself and then edit them on iMovie.

There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself; but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.

Art is not a thing; it is a way.

When you draw or paint a tree, you do not imitate the tree; you do not copy it exactly as it is, which would be mere photography. To be free to paint a tree or a flower or a sunset, you have to feel what it conveys to you: the significance, the meaning of it.

You know, as a writer, I’m more of a listener than a writer, cuz if I hear something I will write it down.

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

I don’t know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope. Causing people to have better relationships. I’m not leading them to some false God or something like that.

One often makes music to supplement one’s world.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Creative output, you know, is just pain. I’m going to be cliche for a minute and say that great art comes from pain.

If I inspire you, pay for it, period.

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

Every artist wants something different out the game.

Necessity… the mother of invention.

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.

My goal is to entertain myself and others.

I’m gonna make what I want to make, and other people are gonna like what they’re gonna like. It doesn’t really matter.

Some people focus more on sonics. Some people focus more on story. I focus on both sonics and story, but music sometimes, just music itself, can turn into more of a maths problem. I guess everything in life is a math problem, but it can be more about an empirical route to getting the symmetry that you want, and this vibe, sonically.

Women have to be extremely careful about choosing something that they consider an act of defiance that can really be used to further their enslavement.

I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew up.

I believe this government cannot endure permanently, half slave and half free.

Yesterday is but today’s memory, and tomorrow is today’s dream.

A good model of how to ‚work with the enemy‘ internally is presented by the Dalai Lama, in his endless caretaking of his soul as he confronts the Chinese government that invaded Tibet.

I enjoy working with complicated equipment. A lot of my things started just with a rhythm box, but I feed it through so many things that what comes out sounds very complex and rich.

And we have done more in the two and a half years that I’ve been in here than the previous 43 Presidents to uphold that principle, whether it’s ending ‚don’t ask, don’t tell,‘ making sure that gay and lesbian partners can visit each other in hospitals, making sure that federal benefits can be provided to same-sex couples.