The good news is at this point as I get older, the load has gotten heavier but my shoulders have gotten wider because I've gotten happier so it's a damn good thing.

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

Good luck with the aliens, and if we survive this feel free to look me up on your next vacation.”“Good luck with the aliens? You are such a prick.

Choose a man who loves God more than he loves you. If he loves you more than he loves God you'll never be enough because no one and nothing can ever satisfy a man's soul but God himself.

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

I'm not even aware of my success. Success is such an illusion.

I hadn't even thought about what I wanted to do when I left school because I was only 14 when I started modelling.

I've paid for more pianos in hotel lobbies than you can imagine.

You choose how to feel and act every moment of every day. The moment you accept this responsibility completely, you gain total control over your life.

Do what you love and don't focus on money - life's too short.

I don't have any system. I dictate a lot, through a machine, and I also have a secretary. But I used to type just like everybody else.

I am glad to have found a readership, but one can’t write only what is likely to sell. A writer is not a shopkeeper. A writer creates an imaginary world that he transmits to others.