The lifetime we've left behind with strangers Promises and lies both have their dangers. I just can't be wrong enough and I can't hide for long enough So far away, but I still feel your pain.

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

Events in life mean nothing if you do not reflect on them in a deep way, and ideas from books are pointless if they have no application to life as you live it.

The path to greatness is along with others.

Ye shall only have foes to be hated; but not foes to be despised: ye must be proud of your foes.

Can anybody tell what sorrows are locked up with our best affections, or what pain may be associated with every pleasure?

A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!

I'm going to college. I don't care if it ruins my career. I'd rather be smart than a movie star.

I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry.

I want the same thing I've wanted since I was 7 years old. I want to be No. 1.

Timeless, so age don't count in the booth When your flow stay submerged in the fountain of youth

You may be able to take a break from writing, but you won't be able to take a break from being a writer.