I write songs and I sing them from the deepest part of my existence and I hope they connect with the deepest part of yours.

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

The real world is oftentimes different from what you expect it to be, what you think it to be, and what people might say it to be.

Rather than staying stuck in stress, unhappiness, or grief, use your experience to find gifts in the pain and grow.

When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.

...an everlasting funeral marches round your heart.

I am wonderfully content with a God who does not deal with me as my sins deserve.

You may be a fantastic person, and you may have some wonderful religious views that might even turn out to be true, but the religion you'd be following would not be Christianity.

I wanted to forget the past, but it refused to forget me; it waited for sleep, then cornered me.

I'm a lot easier to work with now than I have been in the past, for sure.

Poetry ... is the music and painting of the mind.

There’s no accounting for the mysteries of the human heart