Every man's actions belong to him.

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

The world screams, ‘Stay down, it’s safer.’ My soul screams, ‘So is being dead.

Can't you see there's a determinism about the fate of nations? They all seem to get what they deserve in the long run.

Love dances in the freshness of the unknown

Don't poets know it Better than others? God can't be always everywhere: and, so, Invented Mothers

Not only subjective poverty is never overcome by growth, but absolute poverty is increased by it. ... Absolute misery grows while wealth increases.

Caring is the only daring.

I don't know which is worse - to have somebody you DON'T like ask you to marry him or NOT have some one you DO like. Both are rather unpleasant.

My mother gave me a ukulele at age eight, and I sang the popular tunes of the day.

I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.

I feel like I have the greatest life an artist could dream of.