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.

To go through this life and see it through - what it really is - and not be insane or addicted, is a minor miracle for anyone.

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

A candle throws its light into the darkness, in a nasty world so shines a good deed. Make sure the fortune that you seek is the fortune that you need.

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.

With so many people to love in my life, why do I worry about one?

I want to try to not be the child that had to go through too much too young. I want to be who I am now and not who I was then.