I'm not going to do the Ben Harper house record or the Ben Harper drum 'n' bass record.

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.

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

Distance is temporary, but our love is permanent. This may be the last time I see you, but if you keep me in your heart, together we shall be eternal; if you believe, we shall never part.

If fretting was an Olympic sport, I’d own the gold medal

When bad strikes, most likely you will not get an answer when you ask, “Why?” Your strength must come from having faith that someday the answer will come and then it will all make sense.

So it's probably eighty percent luck and twenty percent skill.

Being funny is a symptom of what's underneath. You're pumping out all that energy because something else is going on inside you, some opposing force, something uncomfortable.

When you feel good is when you're not afraid to feel the worst.

There's a way of dealing with hardships that are healthier than going out. That's what I've learned.

Love is not just tolerance. It's not just distant appreciation. It's a warm sense of, 'I am enjoying the fact that you are you.'

Human nature is a work in progress.

I've got kids now and they will constantly pull you into the here and now - they are very present and very vivid.