“There’s so much there, there’s so much to heal for.”

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

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

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.

I love being on the road, I love playing.

I dont know if hell exists, but there sure as hell are some people who dont belong in heaven.

Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe.

I feel what is really great about Pusher is that it wasn’t about drugs and guns and strippers. That was just all circumstantial.

People think you are an orphan when you are a child, and don’t believe that old people can feel that they are orphans.

I don’t have the feeling of being motivated by anger, revenge or frustration.

Good cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work.

Sometimes I feel sad, but this is not nostalgia, because I don’t want time to come back.

Men who believe that, through some exceptional grace or good fortune, they have found God, feel little need of culture.

It is unwise to feel too much if we think too little.