"I'm a bit of a control freak, so I always appreciate being inside the nuts and bolts of the music - I don't like newer programs that paper over your cracks."

“Being true to yourself means living in truth with each person in your life. It means refusing to say or do something that you don't believe is right. Living in truth with other people means that you refuse to stay in any situation where you are unhappy with the behavior of another person. You refuse to tolerate it. You refuse to compromise.”

“Fearless people,Careless needle.Harsh words spoken,And lives are broken.”

Source : Song: Prayer for the Dying, Album: Seal (1994), 1994

“Too often we attempt to work for God to the limit of our incompetency, rather than to the limit of God's omnipotency.”

“The lesson of Pearl Harbor ought never to be forgotten, and of course the motto that came from that, 69 years ago, the war which my dad fought, was 'Remember Pearl Harbor, never again.' We need to keep that to mind.”

“You don't have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.”

Source : Song: Mississippi Goddamn

“The first year or so on The Daily Show is pretty intense in terms of travel. You're going to the worst places in the country, talking to the craziest people in the world.”

“Some people take fashion very seriously....but that’s not right... Fashion should be fun!”

“When a man is in despair, it means that he still believes in something.”

Source : "Testimony". Book edited by Solomon Volkov, transl. by Antonina W. Bouis, New York: Limelight, P. 175, 2004.