When we all see justice, then we'll all see peace!

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.

The more a man knows, the more willing he is to learn. The less a man knows, the more positive he is that he knows everything...

Too many riddles weigh men down on earth. We must solve as we can, and try to keep a dry skin in the water.

Mozart is sweet sunshine.

If you start pandering to young people, you're going to get accused of simply giving people what they want.

People think they own time. They have watches and clocks and digital pulses. But they are wrong. Time owns them.

I like having my own story remain my story.

When I was starting to write, the great influence was T.S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats.

I am singing now while Rome burns.

Every thing in human character goes to wreck, under the reign of procrastination, while prompt action gives to all things a corresponding and proportional life and energy.

You know what? I knew that my God was bigger than his [about Muslims in Somalia]. I knew that my God was a real God and his was an idol.