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Opinions Quotes

I'd rather be dead than singing 'Satisfaction' when I'm 45.

We're not uncomfortable with it, and we've already been through enough of the music business where I'm not really worried that commercial success is going to in some way - we're already past saving, you know what I mean? It's too late for us.

Without freedom of expression, good taste means nothing.

I have so many opinions about everything it just comes out during my music. It's a battle for me. I try not to be preachy. That's a real danger.

I don't get the violence revenge thing. That's supposed to be a good example? And I'm a bad role model because I'm running around with my t*tties out? I'm not sure how titties are worse than guns.

It's always weird when things are targeted for young people, yet they're driven by people that are like 40 years too old. It can't be like this 70-year-old Jewish man that doesn't leave his desk all day, telling me what the clubs want to hear.

I often think about how outspoken he's been about various political issues in this way that I feel like we should expect from punk and hardcore frontmen who are very quiet about those things.

With the war and everything that's going on, unless you're Susan Sarandon, the best route is to keep your mouth shut. For me it is, anyway!

Hip Hop when it started it was supposed to be this new thing that had no boundaries and was so different to everyday music. Now it seems like I was starting to get caught up in the mode of what made hip hop come about. As long as the music has the true to the heart soul it can be hip hop. As long it has soul to it, hip hop can live on.

Look, people are allowed their own opinions and they don't always coincide with yours. As an artist you just have to keep plugging on.

It's rare for anyone to value the opinions of a teenage girl.

I'm a role model for those who dare to be different. For those who dare to take a stand in their life and have an opinion.

I'd rather people love me or hate me than have no opinion of me. Indifference is scary.

Folk music is a bunch of fat people.

Honey, I'd just as soon keep my own personal views about that to myself. I'm just an entertainer, and I'd rather not say.

I think Jesus was a compassionate, super-intelligent gay man who understood human problems.

It's my opinion that music should not be free, and my prediction is that individual artists and their labels will someday decide what an album's price point is. I hope they don't underestimate themselves or undervalue their art.

We don't need to share the same opinions as others, but we need to be respectful.

New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths.

Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else.