I was into acting as a kid. There was a time when I was 18 that I played the boy in a production of 'Equus' in Oregon, and I thought that was going to be my life.

Reggae music isn't Jewish, but a lot of the ideas are.

I think there is a tendency for people to get rigid and caught up in their beliefs of what is right and wrong, and they lose sight of humanity. Being human has to come first before right or wrong.

I can show you where to dig, and what to dig for, but the digging you must do for yourself.

Reach for the sky Keep your eye on the prize Forever in my mind Be my golden sunshine It's raining in your mind So push them clouds aside Forever by my side You're my golden sunshine

Most of my life wasn't about knowledge from books, but experiential knowledge.

Some artists are bound to an image: Bob Marley has dreadlocks, Matisyahu has a beard. But that's a reminder that the whole thing is not about style. It's about music.

Everyone's right or wrong, Everyone's got an opinion, put them in a song and let me keep on living.

We're so quick to go to make things black and white, and to put things in their box. But everything is this mixture - and that's what this world is - is this blend of different things.

All my life I been waitin' for I been prayin' for, for the people to say that we don't want to fight no more. They'll be no more wars and our children will play, one day.

Who’s gonna make you happy when you’re your own worst enemy?

One Life, with each other, Sisters, Brothers...

North Korea remains the last bastion of undiluted communism in the world.

My songs will pass and be forgotten. What counts, however, is that I sang them.

If you measure your happiness by the amount of liquid you have in your glass, you are either a cliché or an alcoholic.

A thousand lives are not equal to the eternal life which abides in Jehovah's smile

God doesn't want us to be happy when it causes us to do something wrong or unwise

Brother will kill brother, Spilling blood across the land...

The world is more like it is now then it ever has before.

I'm working for the women in the world, today; that's my essential issue.

My dream was to write a book and see it published. I didn't dare imagine anything beyond that, so, I'm trying to keep my head on my shoulders.