I think there is a tendency for people to get rigid and caught up in their beliefs of what is right and wrong, and they lose sight of humanity. Being human has to come first before right or wrong.
MatisyahuA lot of people in the religious world believe that by secularizing, or viewing the changes as secular, such as dropping the beard and changing my appearance, they consider this to be a fall.
MatisyahuEveryone's right or wrong, Everyone's got an opinion, put them in a song and let me keep on living.
MatisyahuIf I've grown as an artist, it will be represented in the art. There's no need to explain it.
MatisyahuThere is an assumption if you are not religious, you have fallen, or you are further from God, or you are not doing the right thing. The judgment on me, with regard to my changes, is that he must be out all night partying or banging prostitutes and doing blow. This whole thing for me was absolutely the contrary. It was actually that God started to become very real to me, inside.
Matisyahu