The advice I have for new artists is this - write great songs and play them live as often as possible. Get residencies all over town and crush it.

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

Nobody ever wrote down a plan to be broke, fat, lazy, or stupid. Those things are what happen when you don’t have a plan.

I've sent you roses many times. I've held your hand in mine

A mother is an irreplaceable gift that God has given every mankind. Your (a child's) duty is to honour, adore, respect and serve her. Your blessings are tied in how honour she felt.

I'm truly grateful to all of the family. However I'm very sorry at the same time. I didn't make many appearances in 'Dream High.' I hope to show you all a better side of me next time.

There's some great women doing TV. I would love to do a Grey's Anatomy-type show. I'm a big fan.

Our mothers who have gone are buried in our bodies. It can be said that we were born with dead mothers in our body.

Ridicule is a weak weapon when pointed at a strong mind; but common people are cowards and dread an empty laugh.

I'd say the music influences the writing - the music and rhythm of the prose - much more than the writing influences the music.

There should essentially be no limits to the voluntary definition of marriage.

Pizza was made for television in so many ways: it is easy to heat up, easy to divide and easy to eat in a group. It is easy to enjoy, easy to digest and easy-going. It is so Italian!