“We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.”

“Feelings are much stronger than thoughts. We are all led by instinct, and our intellect catches up later”

“We can't fix all problems but we must fix the ones we can”

“What we're about in this band, I hope...is that we put people before ideas.”

“I will admit that we are attracted to issues that unify people rather than divide them.”

“Every age has its massive moral blind spots. We might not see them, but our children will.”

“... But the one thing we can all agree -- all faiths, all ideologies -- is that God is with the vulnerable and poor. God is in the slums, in the cardboard boxes where the poor play house. God is in the silence of a mother who has infected her child with a virus that will end both their lives. God is in the cries heard under the rubble of war. God is in the debris of wasted opportunity and lives, and God is with us if we are with them.”