Artists are the radical voice of civilization.

My father was a slave and my people died to build this country and I am going to stay here and have a part of it just like you.

The answer to injustice is not to silence the critic but to end the injustice.

The faces and the tactics of the leaders may change every four years, or two, or one, but the people go on forever.

As an artist I come to sing, but as a citizen, I will always speak for peace, and no one can silence me in this.

Artists are the gate keepers of truth. We are civilization’s radical voice.

In Russia I felt for the first time like a full human being. No color prejudice like in Mississippi, no color prejudice like in Washington. It was the first time I felt like a human being.

We ask for nothing that is not ours by right, and herein lies the great moral power of our demand.

Through my singing and acting and speaking, I want to make freedom ring. Maybe I can touch people's hearts better than I can their minds, with the common struggle of the common man.

My future depends mostly upon myself.

Art is not just to show life as it is, but to show life as it should be.

So when the blue smoke of brittle leaves was in the air and the wind blew the wet laundry stiff on the line I decided to come back home.

I feel like a fraud... My name is not even actually Ashton. Ashton is my middle name.

The higher the joy is not the light, it's the reflection. The greater pleasure is not climbing up; it's handing down

Ask yourself every couple of minutes, 'Can I go harder? Can I do more?' You've got so much power. Show me.

I really do like seeing other people perform my music. It's one of the most rewarding things for me, so it's worth the extra work.

In America, we have cities that are far more dangerous than Afghanistan.

Old men go to Death, Death comes to Young men.

As with any relationship, the market favors those who give more value than they ask for.

I want people to come to my music without prejudice. I want them to get the music first. And who I am isn't that important. If they like the songs to me that's a good thing.

We must not be contented however with praying, without exerting ourselves in the use of means for the obtaining of those things we pray for.