"I'm not ashamed to say that I really loved some of the hair metal bands of the '80s."

“I've never really presumed to know what my fans want or like. When I'm making the music, I just chase whatever I find interesting that day and luckily there are people who find it interesting as well.”

“I love the Russian absurdists - [Nikolai] Gogol,[Daniil] Kharms, and [Vladimir] Bulgakov. Even within the Russian experimentalists, there's a lineage of traditional narrative, conflict, and character development, which I find vital to my storytelling.”

“I just go with what excites me.”

Source : Source: www.ign.com

“A negotiator should observe everything. You must be part Sherlock Holmes, part Sigmund Freud.”

Source : Victor Kiam (1987). “Going for it!: how to succeed as an entrepreneur”

“Secularists are wrong when they ask believers to leave their religion at the door before entering into the public square. Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, Williams Jennings Bryan, Dorothy Day, Martin Luther King - indeed, the majority of great reformers in American history - were not only motivated by faith, but repeatedly used religious language to argue for their cause. To say that men and women should not inject their "personal morality" into public policy debates is a practical absurdity.”

“All nations that have nuclear weapons think that they are responsible and it is the other guys who are irresponsible.”

Source : "Israel's 'bomb in the basement'" by John Vause, www.cnn.com. April 21, 2004.

“Mission arises from the heart of God Himself and is communicated from His heart to ours. Mission is the global outreach of the global people of a global God.”

“Just as a mother finds pleasure in taking her little child on her lap, there to feed and caress him, in like manner our loving God shows His fondness for His beloved souls who have given themselves entirely to Him and have placed all their hope in His goodness.”