"When people fear surveillance, whether it exists or not, they grow afraid to speak their minds and hearts freely to their government or to anyone else."

"I think any music of any worth has been done by people who were very interested in the internal process of their soul and their mind that's taking place while they're writing music."

"Our country is far less at risk from the coronavirus than it is from the thousands of small and large authoritarians who have suddenly flexed their muscles across the country. President Trump would do…"

"The type of people who gravitate to the government system are doing this out of desperation and they don't really have the answers, and eventually... fail."

"A lot of people never use their initiative because nobody told them to."