As long as the songs are strong, I think you can express yourself in any style and have it be soulful and have it be your own voice.

I get diminishing returns when I bore myself in an interview.

When your whole world is shaken from all the risks we have taken, Dance with me, dance with me into the colors of the dusk.

I'm not going to do the Ben Harper house record or the Ben Harper drum 'n' bass record.

Let us burn one from end to end, and pass it over to me my friend.

What enables me to believe in anything is hope.

Make sure the fortune that you seek is the fortune that you need.

Music is the last true voice of the human spirit. It can go beyond language, beyond age, and beyond color straight to the mind and heart of all people.

I'm a living sunset, lightning in my bones.

Every moral has a story, every story has and end. Every battle has its glory, and its consequence.

As long as someone else controls your history the truth shall remain just a mystery

All men and women flee from the witnesses of their wrongdoings.

I am usually asked, 'How do manage to stay consistent with your goals?' I would always reply, 'I do so because I cannot afford to face the consequences of procrastinating on my goals.

What do you want from me? Revenge? Sorry—we're all out of revenge today!

That is what I want to tell you about: the girls with their short skirts and bright eyes and big-city dreams. The girls of 1929.

I have spoken to expert audiences occasionally, but then no audience is expert over the whole range of things I want to explore.

Never trade a secret, you'll always get the short end of the bargain.

The further you go in the revealed thoughts of God, the clearer you see that God's aim in creating the world was to display the value of his own glory.

I think what you study and what you believe in has an influence in the way you live.

It was a race between the tortoise and the hare, but the tortoise had just enough head start, and he had the magus to drag him along.

The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.