My favorite photos are the ones where people don't really see me. I'm more interested in looking at people looking at things.

As I've learned in the past few years, Mali is home to some of the most incredible musicians in the world.

The majority of my photos are taken while traveling, because everything feels new and exciting initially. Taking photos is like a way to make sense of the overwhelming.

I'm a big fan of Henri Cartier-Bresson, the French photographer who had that whole "decisive moment" approach to taking pictures, of having multiple elements line up within the frame.

It definitely helps if I can wear a jacket, because I can have a camera in my pocket. When we're on tour or if I go travel somewhere by myself, that's when I take the most photos.

Photography has always been important to me for that, being able to make sense of something or understand something or remember something or laugh at something.

The fact that so many people whose livelihood depends on being able to play, it's just crazy.

I believe that fate is choices - it's not chance.

My first instinct when I write songs is not a negative one. It's something positive... Everything I've ever done has some form of hope in it, I think.

Schools cannot shut their gates and leave the outside world on the doorstep.

I'm beholding to nobody, I've spent you know, tens and tens of millions of dollars on the campaign.

You feel the call. That's the important thing. Now answer it as fully as you can. Take the risk to let all that is in you, out. Escape into the open.

The real power of books is their deep companionability. We learn from them as we learn from the deep companionability of love to know our own hearts and minds better.

There is a gulf as wide as an ocean between should and want, and I am drowning in it.

Talent is cheap, you have to be possessed or obsessed, rather. You really have to feel like you cannot not do art, and that is something you can't will.

I just like people. I'll hold a conversation at a gas station. It's not about the fame and the fortune, I just like people.

There is no real need for decorations when throwing a barbecue party - let the summer garden, in all its vibrant and luscious splendour, speak for itself.