I've always used songwriting as a way to help me organise reality.

If you have nothing but love for your avocados, and you take joy in turning them into guacamole, all you need is someone to share it with.

I won't give up. Even if the skies get rough.

I buy records from all across the board. I get kind of a hybrid of influences in my own music.

You can turn off the sun, but I'm still gonna shine

Here’s to freedom, cheers to art. Here’s to having an excellent adventure and may the stopping never start.

Open up your heart and the sky is yours.

You come to realize that only one person can tell you what's expected of you, and that's you.

Music is a weapon in the war against unhappiness.

Life can't work for you if you don't show up as you.

Lucky to have been where I have been

If I were a seagullI wouldn't have to stick aroundIf people argued- I would fly off, swerve, wheel, dip, scream.a thousand wings of company if I have friendstwo strong wings of my ownIf I don't

Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.

now i can get them teeth

Democracy cannot be built on revenge and you will not have the support of the world if you are intolerant and take the law into your own hands.

Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.

the force of love will change your life so fast that you will scarcely believe it!

I would like to thank my parents in Vergaio, a little village in Italy. They gave me the biggest gift: poverty.

I don't care if you want to hunt, I don't care if you think it's your right. I say, sorry, you are not allowed to own a gun, and if you do own a gun I think you should go to prison.

I consider myself as a singer first, but something that really helped me come into my own is that there's not a separation between me singing and me playing the guitar. The two fed off the other.

Manpower without Unity is not a strength unless it is harmonized and united properly, then it becomes a spiritual power.