“Don’t let what you have to heal from blind you to how much there is to heal for.”

If I fall, I fall. I’ll rise up like anybody else.

You can kill a lot of time if you really want to put your mind to it Or leave it all behind and never really have to go through it

Let us burn one from end to end, and pass it over to me my friend.

Don’t be discouraged by writer’s block. Writer’s block just means you need to listen to other music.

I can change the world With my own two hands Make a better place With my own two hands Make a kinder place.

The woman in you is the worry in me.

As long as the songs are strong, I think you can express yourself in any style and have it be soulful and have it be your own voice.

I refuse to age disgracefully in rock ‘n’ roll.

I’m not going to do the Ben Harper house record or the Ben Harper drum ‘n’ bass record.

Make sure the fortune that you seek is the fortune that you need.

It just takes a pebble to bring down a good man.

The advice I have for new artists is this – write great songs and play them live as often as possible. Get residencies all over town and crush it.

We figured you could download live shows for days, so we decided to go for a cream-of-the-crop approach, but not just take the best vocal or the best performances.

Every moral has a story, every story has and end. Every battle has its glory, and its consequence.

If you’re gonna live, then live it up.

You look like gold. I’ve been fooled before, but now I know I’ve made the mistake in the past. But now I, now I know the difference from gold and brass.

In the midst of the sense of tragedy or loss, sometimes laughter is not only healing, it’s a way of experiencing the person that you’ve lost again.

It turned out that time doesn’t heal the wound , but in its so merciful way , blunts the edges ever so slightly

You slammed my face down on the barbecue grill, now my scars are all healing, but my heart never will.

Either we heal now, as a team, or we will die as individuals.

You can’t ever have healing if the patient is left out of the operation room.

The hardest part about being a celebrity is having to heal on a public stage.

Forgetting about our mistakes and our wounds isn’t enough to make them disappear.

Can individual psychic wounds really heal in an abusive and fragmented society? Audre Lorde has a poem which begins,