When I first started, my songs were the politics of anger. As I got older and hopefully wiser, I wanted to be part of the politics of answers.

You learn a lot when you're barefoot. The first thing is every step you take is different.

All the freaky people make the beauty of the world.

We can bomb the world to pieces, but we can't bomb it into peace.

When many little people in many little places do many little things, then the whole world changes.

The music industry has been hijacked by corporate interests, but the way music affects people and resonates with them hasn't changed.

Be as radiant as the sun, as healing as the rain, as generous as a tree.

Life is too short to make just one decision, Music's too loud for just one station, Love is too big for just one nation, AND GOD IS TOO BIG FOR JUST ONE RELIGION...

I don't know if music can change the world overnight but I know that music can help someone make it through a difficult night.

Don't settle for something that's not great. Don't feel like having a relationship that is not serving your needs is more important than having a relationship with yourself.

Every single soul is a poem.

Nobody steals from Creed Bratton and gets away with it. The last person to do this disappeared. His name? Creed Bratton.

One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.

The Cosmos was not made by gods but always was and is eternal fire.

You know, I've had blowups with my coach too. The same thing happens, it just wasn't as evident back then because they didn't have so many cameras and ways to see things happen.

The world speaks to me in colors, my soul answers in music.

Men are always ready to nose around and find out about other's lives, but they feel lazy to know themselves and correct their own life.

The way I perform best is with a clear and happy mind.

Usually when someone believes in a particular religion, his attitude becomes more and more a sharp angle pointing away from himself. In our way the point of the angle is always toward ourselves.