I'm a man that has a vision as to how this world can be, and I've gathered myself through all the ordeals that I had to make me a well-rounded person and still fight for justice.
Equations are the devil's sentences.
Can accidentally eating halal food make you Muslim? Yes, the same way drinking a cosmo can make you gay.
If Corporations are people, I guarantee you that a government of those people, by those people, and for those people will continue to exist.
You have a firm grasp of the obvious.
I believe in pulling yourself up by your own bootstraps. I believe it is possible — I saw this guy do it once in Cirque du Soleil. It was magical.
Give a man a suicide bomb, he blows up once. Teach a man to suicide bomb, he also blows up once.
Personally, I am always more impressed by simplicity, clarity; it is the mark of a writer who knows his subject well and is secure enough not to 'lay it on' in the telling. Aim for complexity of thought, not expression.
I'm very particular about everything. That goes along with the artwork, and how it's laid out, and every lyric. So it's pretty much all in my hands, which is crazy to be touring and doing that at the same time.
The first time I met Patti Smith was in a laundromat. We knew some of the same people, including Richard Hell.
Your holiest pain comes from your yearning to change yourself in the exact way you'd like the world around you to change. . . . Your sweet spot is in between the true believers and the scoffing skeptics.