“It feels good to play a little music / Tears running down my face ’cause I love to do it”

Forget about color or race or gender or whatever, he’s got his heart in the right place.

I started feeling this little lump in my throat, like you would feel if you have swollen glands or something like that

Music is going to go in some direction that is entirely inconceivable now.

Don’t think whether it’s a hit or not and people will get you.

Rather than trying to figure out what other people should be doing, work on your own interactions in the world and whatever influence they have.

It just seemed like Buddhism, especially Tibetan Buddhism – because that’s mainly what I’ve been exposed to – was a real solid organization of teachings to point someone in the right direction.

That’s the strange thing about making a record.

China is one of the last huge dictatorships, holding on to these colonies, provinces.

The situation with Tibet has to change.

That has to collapse. It’s the responsibility of heads of business who are going to do business in China to lay down the law.

I want to say a little something that’s long overdue, the disrespect to women has got to be through.

All of it has an effect.

I’m not just talking about what you put on a record – even just walking into a store and how you interact with the person behind the checkout counter.

Like you’d feel if you have a cold, so I didn’t really think it was anything.

People need to be more aware of how they’re affecting people.

When I was younger, I felt like I could say anything and it was funny.

That story hit me right, man. I know no guy ever made me feel as good as an audience. I’m really far into this now, really committed.

I don’t know, I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what ‘soul’ is all about.

I like people who shake other people up and make them feel uncomfortable.

You can’t make up something that you don’t feel. I didn’t make it up. I just opened my mouth and it existed.

You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?

feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal

How can they deal with love if they’re afraid to feel? Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they’re wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio.

I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.