Folk is bare bones 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

I know, Ezra, that I tend to be a bit impulsive at times, but it all seems so reasonable at the time I do these things, and so unreasonable when everyone looks back at what happened and what I did

If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living.

Organisms by their design are not made to adapt too far.

I love you," she said, and I knew she meant it because she spoke the words from the heart at the center of her chest. This, at least, had not been left behind at the hospital.

Human beings are not like they are portrayed in Hollywood. They are individuals who are a mixture of good and bad.

Most people are not valued. Very few people have someone who believes in them. Very few have others love them unconditionally. Do these things intentionally every day.

You sometimes think you want to disappear, but all you really want is to be found.

You play ensemble things that you had no idea you were going to play two minutes before.

Energy never dies. It just transforms.

Pascal and Voltaire both probably had IQs in the neighborhood of 200.