I always tried to hit the ball back through the box because that is the largest unprotected area.
My parents met in Kenya. My father is African, is Kenyan. The Kenyan side of my family was involved in the anticolonial movement.
Paul Ryan's love for Rage Against The Machine is amusing, because he is the embodiment of the machine that our music has been raging against for two decades
America touts itself as the land of the free, but the number one freedom that you and I have is the freedom to enter into a subservient role in the workplace. Once you exercise this freedom you’ve lost all control over what you do, what is produced, and how it is produced. And in the end, the product doesn’t belong to you. The only way you can avoid bosses and jobs is if you don’t care about making a living. Which leads to the second freedom: the freedom to starve.
A good song should make you wanna tap your foot and get with your girl. A great song should destroy cops and set fire to the suburbs. I'm only interested in writing great songs.
Bad presidents make for great music, and I'm gonna do my best to provide it.
A musicians or artists responsibility is a simple one, and that is, through your music to tell the truth.
Don't be afraid to tell the truth. It's better to hurt someone by truth than to make them happy by lies.
Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays.
Make your influence a good one. Act in a way you would be proud of even if the whole world was watching, because your example could mean the world to just one person.
I decided very early that I wanted to write. But I didn't think of it as a career. I didn't even think of it as a profession. . . It was the most exciting thing, the most powerful thing, the most wonderful thing to do with my life.