With so many people to love in my life, why do I worry about one?

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

I have no will of my own. Never did. Limp and lily-livered, I always obey - is it possible that's attractive to women?

You forget, my good man, that what the artist perceives is, primarily, the difference between things. It is the vulgar who note their resemblance.

Each of my book arrives at a form and a style that is appropriate to the subject.

For me, Venezuela is very important, not just because it's a place I go to conduct, but because my family is there - my wife, my parents and my musical family.

Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts.

My encyclopedic knowledge of rock and roll is a millstone around my neck.

We're dreamers and - since we only have one life, and if we screw up we can get in a world of trouble - we're very intense dreamers.

I had the halfway house. I can't tell how many nights I spent around my kitchen table, soothing broken hearts.

What distinguishes tennis is respect for one's opponent, one's conduct on the court.

Men don't oppress women any more than women oppress men.