My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.
America is not just a country, it's an idea, and real Americans are getting busy.
The less you know, the more you believe.
We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.
The extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment.
As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both.
You see, idealism detached from action is just a dream. But idealism allied with pragmatism, with rolling up your sleeves and making the world bend a bit, is very exciting. It's very real. It's very strong.
Facts, like people, want to be free - and when they're free, liberty is usually around the corner.
Where you live in the world should not determine whether you live in the world.
I think ABBA have a pure joy to their music and that's what makes them extraordinary.
The job of art is to chase ugliness away.
Religion can be the enemy of God. It's often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.
When you align yourself with God's purpose as described in the Scriptures, something special happens to your life.
When people say, you know, 'Good teacher,' 'Prophet,' 'Really nice guy'... this is not how Jesus thought of Himself. So you're left with a challenge in that, which is either Jesus was who he said he was or a complete and utter nut case. You have to make a choice on that.
If September 11th has taught us anything, it's certainly that the world has never been so interdependent. It is impossible now to be an island of prosperity in a sea of despair.
Because I was suspicious of the traditional Christian church, I tended to tar them all with the same brush. That was a mistake, because there are righteous people working in a whole rainbow of belief systems - from Hasidic Jews to right-wing Bible Belters to charismatic Catholics.
What really turns me on about technology is not just the ability to get more songs on MP3 players. The revolution - this revolution - is much bigger than that. I hope, I believe. What turns me on about the digital age, what excites me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing.
I truly believe that when the history books are written, our age will be remembered for three things: the war on terror, the digital revolution, and what we did - or did not do - to put the fire out in Africa. History, like God, is watching what we do.
Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.
The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off - we do not have to stand for this.
