Every human being is a raindrop. And when enough of the raindrops become clear and coherent they then become the power of the storm.

As human beings we're living in a reality of industrial madness.

I've never not been pleased with one of my albums. I figure because it's spoken word, there will be people who relate to it, and people who don't, so I don't worry about any of that. I've been doing it for over twenty years. I've always written because it was something I had to do, never for the glory.

I'm just a human being trying to make it in a world that is very rapidly losing it's understanding of being human.

We must go beyond the arrogance of human rights. We must go beyond the ignorance of civil rights. We must step into the reality of natural rights because all of the natural world has a right to existence and we are only a small part of it. There can be no trade-off.

They’re called poems but in reality they’re lines given to me to hang on to

In the society of illusion, reality must manifest itself. The story songs of Joel Rafael are that manifestation... the essence of minstrel.