Investing now in safe-guarding people by helping them to adapt to climate change, will help save money and lives while building resilience.

You learn a lot when you're barefoot. The first thing is every step you take is different.

All the freaky people make the beauty of the world.

We can bomb the world to pieces, but we can't bomb it into peace.

When many little people in many little places do many little things, then the whole world changes.

The music industry has been hijacked by corporate interests, but the way music affects people and resonates with them hasn't changed.

Be as radiant as the sun, as healing as the rain, as generous as a tree.

Life is too short to make just one decision, Music's too loud for just one station, Love is too big for just one nation, AND GOD IS TOO BIG FOR JUST ONE RELIGION...

I don't know if music can change the world overnight but I know that music can help someone make it through a difficult night.

Don't settle for something that's not great. Don't feel like having a relationship that is not serving your needs is more important than having a relationship with yourself.

Every single soul is a poem.

When I want to read a novel, I write one.

To this day I don’t know if he was struggling with the moral implications of gunning down half a dozen civilians, or if he was mentally counting to see if he had that many shells left in the gun.

My goal is to draw a line with some 'flavor' to it.

What I like to do is try to make a difference with the work I do.

. . .sometimes one feels freer speaking to a stranger than to people one knows. Why is that?" “Probably because a stranger sees us the way we are, not as he wishes to think we are.

That’s a lesson we can all learn: the more we have, the more we want. And the only cure is to break the cycle of relativity.

It's impossible for me to think of music as a contest. All of the awards ceremonies, I mean I'm sure they're fun for people, but they have no meaning to me.

So much of my life is not about work and that is usually mainly what I do tweet about. We live a very quiet life.

I have trouble with letting go. That's my problem. Anybody that has extreme highs and extreme lows is bipolar to any psychologist and that's not necessarily the truth.

Express yourself, don't hurt yourself.