I refuse to make 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

Thoughts need words. Words need a voice.

There are people who design buildings that are not technically and financially good, and there are those who do. Two categories - simple.

Who promised you that only for joy were you brought to this earth?

[On the Chicago Cubs:] Being a Cubs fan prepares you for life - and Washington.

Read your own obituary notice; they say you live longer. Gives you second wind. New lease of life.

We need racist stereotypes right now of our enemy in order to encourage our warriors to kill the enemy.

Education in music is most sovereign because more than anything else rhythm and harmony find their way to the innermost soul and take strongest hold upon it

I've always been a fan of science fiction. My family, we all used to watch 'Star Trek' together, which is kind of a nerdy family activity.

People are so complex that you can't possibly know anybody in 90 minutes.

As Africans, we need to share common recognition that all of us stand to lose if we fail to transform our continent.