It's unbelievable to me how sure people can be of themselves.

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?

Love as much as you can, for as long as you can, and as best as you can.

Timid young artists, adding parental fears to their own, often give up their sunny dreams of artistic careers, settling into the twilight world of could-have-beens and regrets.

Chicago - a facade of skyscrapers facing a lake and behind the facade every type of dubiousness.

I'm not really a strange person or anything, so if there's music I like, usually there's other people who like it too.

Get out from that kitchen and rattle those pots and pans. Well, roll my breakfast cause I'm a hungry man.

To be happy, one only must be able to confront, which is to say, experience, those things that are. Unhappiness is only this the inability to confront that which is.

The way to my heart is by being truthful and spontaneous.

The most potent thing we can do is to bring more compassion online.

The correctness and quality of what you write do not matter; the act of writing does.

Say goodbye to the energy vampires in your life (the negative souls who steal your enthusiasm).