I grew up listening to spiritual music, Blind Willie Johnson and folk.

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.

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.

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.

I get diminishing returns when I bore myself in an interview.

There's no love like a lost love and no pain like a broken heart.

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