It seems like the chaos of this world is accelerating, but so is the beauty in the consciousness of more and more people.

Sometimes life's so much cooler when you just don't know any better and all the painful lessons have not hammered your head open yet.

Also, we're all actually different blood types and we have one represented by each guy in the band.

We've just learned how to balance ourselves a little better so that we're happier way more of the time than not, and, you know, being happy is a radical and desirable act if you ask me.

We did that with people like Chris Rock, Woody Harrelson, and the environmentalist Julia Butterfly Hill.

We'll have these people hang out with us while we're doing our touring, and talk to them and let them speak their piece to the world.

In terms of having high hopes that the level of consciousness will get higher and higher, yeah.

You know I love pot, and I love beer, but I am totally sober, just because it completely stopped working for me.

I would consider him definitely one of my very best friends and I know he feels the same about me. We have a lot of love and respect.

But then when he left, I realized that it was harder to write songs and feel spiritually connected to art and music as a band. When he came back I felt it again, instantaneously.

I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction.

It seems like the chaos of this world is accelerating, but so is the beauty in the consciousness of more and more people.

As a father now, I wouldn't do what my dad did, because it left me feeling emotionally unstable as a kid. But he didn't do the things he did out of selfishness or malice.

I discovered surfing, which I absolutely fell in love with. That feels good and kind of keeps your body aligned, so does the salt water.

I don't even know what words to use to talk about the music industry anymore. But the business has changed a lot - the methods of releasing music.

I find it hard to meet the right woman as people assume I'm a certain type of person - which I'm not.

I inherited my father's insatiable desire to meet all the beautiful girls in the world.

I like the idea of defying the convention of what it is to be in your 40s, or 50s, or 60s.

I never really thought in terms of the concept of being a rock star - being around people like that just seemed like normal day-in-the-life stuff to me. Those were just the surroundings I grew up in.

I was a little self-centered gutter punk in the early 1980s and all I wanted to do was diss everybody.

I would have to say the person with whom I am most in love is definitely my son, Everly Bear. Although I'm his dad, I'm also his friend.

I'm not a true vegan.

I'm probably not long-term-relationship material for now.

If you want to get along with somebody, let them be right, and it will last longer.

My days are whatever I want them to be.

Personally, I am stuck with one foot in the past and one foot in the present.

The fact my relationship with my son is so good makes me forgiving of my father and also appreciative.

Well, I get excited about music.

What I've realized over the years is that I have some pretty good friends.

What doesn't kill you only makes your book longer.

would consider him definitely one of my very best friends and I know he feels the same about me. We have a lot of love and respect.

A rock star does not age!

It's hard to believe that there's nobody out there. It's hard to believe that I'm all alone. At least I have her love, the city she loves me. Lonely as I am, together we cry.

Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.

Because beauty isn't enough, there must be something more.

Oh! this opponent, this collaborator against your will, whose notion of beauty always differs from yours and whose means are often too limited for active assistance to your intentions!

The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within - strength, courage, dignity.

Beauty set up distance between other people and me. It warped their behavior.

Do not confuse beauty with beautiful. Beautiful is a human judgment. Beauty is All. The difference is everything.

The double hundred Fowler hit in the Madras Test was an absolute beauty.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

I had a lot of resentment for a while toward Kim Novak. But I don't mind her anymore. She's okay. We've become friends. I even asked her before this trip for some beauty tips.

You don't know what the Chinese expect in the way of beauty. The presentation is just a farce. You come into a room filled with 50 people and they don't talk to you. There's very little interaction.

Then Christ shall be clothed with all the beauty of the elect as if with a long tunic variously adorned, in which He shall shine as if covered with all manner of precious stones.

There is no spot of ground, however arid, bare or ugly, that cannot be tamed into such a state as may give an impression of beauty and delight.

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.

To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.

There's one more thing I want to say. It's a touchy subject. Black beauty. Black sensuality. We live in a culture where the beauty of black people isn't always as celebrated as other types. I'd like to help change that if I can!

In things to be seen at once, much variety makes confusion, another vice of beauty. In things that are not seen at once, and have no respect one to another, great variety is commendable, provided this variety transgress not the rules of optics and geometry.