But I would never insult the people that love this music and I would never insult the blessing of music in my life and I would never insult myself by playing uninspired music.

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

Slaves in the past were captured by force

GOD IS YOUR THOUGHTS

Character is the real foundation of all worthwhile success.

I valued my independence from an early age and was always something of a individualist … Well, a show-off anyway.

Be yourself. No one else can.

I'll always rather be in a ship that's got a captain that has some vision.

European museums are all dependent on government financing. The moment European governments are under financial pressure, their budgets are cut.

You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception.

I've been around so long that I might be in record books for being the longest, weirdest, most pathetic great player ever. Look t how precocious I am at 33.

Incompetence is often highly regarded in governmental circles.