If I would not be able to create music, I would create art or something else. Perhaps cooking.

Our leaders and Osama Bin Laden all claim to do the right thing in the name of God. I question that. I wonder if that God is worth the life of another human-being.

I find myself wanting to make music at the dining room table or in the bedroom - I'm kind of a mobile writer, so I sort of move around the house. But the attic is definitely where I can make the most noise. While everyone on the lower floors screams 'Earthquake!' But no! It's just my bass!

Children are born with their own optimism. They have a clarity and a simplicity that we can only wish for.

Your government has problems...my government has problems. I can't be a judge. All I can do is be an ambassador of love. I'm a musician, not a soldier, and if I'm invited to a place in order to play and bring love, I'll always accept the invitation.

I think leaders are incapable of the strength that passive resistance entails.

I'm always tryin' to do something new, tryin' to look like a beginner.