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We’ve changed our reflections, but inside we’re just a child.

Ben Harper

Take my hand when you are worried Take my hand when you’re alone Take my hand and let me guide you Take my hand to lead you home.
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Hands Home Worried
I grew up listening to spiritual music, Blind Willie Johnson and folk.
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Blind Listening Spiritual
I don’t know how to not become every person I walk by.
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Become Easy Person Walks
They say time will make all this go away. But it’s time that has taken my tomorrows and turned them into yesterdays.
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Away Sadness Taken Yesterday
The woman in you is the worry in me.
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Evil Misogyny Worry
Love for me is my North Star. It’s the highest form of grace. And I love that there’s different levels and different ways of showing it, and different representations of it. Whether it’s love shown to a stranger, love to a sibling, your child, your parents, your partner.
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Children Sibling Stars
As long as someone else controls your history the truth shall remain just a mystery
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Ethics Long Moral
Just because you have a hit doesn’t mean you’re good [at music]. Just means you got a hit.
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Good Hit Mean Music
You can’t take the same photograph every time and live with art forms with no differences.
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Difference Live Photograph Time
I love being on the road, I love playing.
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Love Playing Road
If I fall, I fall. I’ll rise up like anybody else.
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Anybody Else Fall Fallen
Every single time I step into the studio, I say, ‘Can I still do this? Do I still have it? Have I ever had it?’ I suppose there’s a good amount of self-loathing that goes into any form of artisanship.
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Loathing Self Steps Suppose
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.
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Cream Crop Crops Shows
I write songs and I sing them from the deepest part of my existence and I hope they connect with the deepest part of yours.
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Existence Song Writing
I get diminishing returns when I bore myself in an interview.
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Diminishing Interviews Return Returns
I just want to keep doing what I feel.
BEN HARPER

Doing Feels Want
These eyes weren’t made for crying, this love wasn’t made to waste. These arms weren’t made for battle, but to share in your embrace.
BEN HARPER

Battle Eye Relationship
You’re living life in real time, man, and we’ ve got a good amount of work to do for each other. Hiding is not an option and you’re going to step out and you’re going to make mistakes.
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Life Live Mistake Real
As a songwriter, I don’t rush. I may sit on lyrics for two years before the music hits.
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May Music Two Years
If it comes out sounding like Dixieland jazz or classical or punk or rock or even slightly metal, that’s because that’s where I’m going to find inspiration.
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Inspiration Rocks
My choice is what I choose to be.
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Advice Choices Choose
I refuse to age disgracefully in rock ‘n’ roll.
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Age Disgrace Refuse Rocks
What enables me to believe in anything is hope.
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Anything Believe Hope
Every moral has a story, every story has and end. Every battle has its glory, and its consequence.
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Battle Moral Stories
My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, called The Claremont Folk Music Center.
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Country Family Own Stores
When it comes to partnership, some humans can make their lives alone – it’s possible. But creatively, it’s more like painting: you can’t just use the same colours in every painting. It’s just not an option.
BEN HARPER

Alone Art Color Creatively Differences Possible Use
My main concern when travelling around the world is finding a place to skateboard!
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Around Skateboard Travelling World

We’ve changed our reflections, but inside we’re just a child.

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