"I felt like a rich vagabond who had passed through the world paving my way with gold fairy dust, then realizing too late that the path disintegrated as soon as I passed over it."

“Fear only goes where it's invited to stay.”

Source : Song: Sisters brothers, Album: Medicine, 2015

“I have been blessed with working with the best in the business.”

“He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.”

“A mind is so closely shaped by the body and destined to serve it that only one mind could possibly arise in it. No body, never mind.”

“We know through the process of energy independence, our whole geopolitical footprint changes in terms of our national security and how we operate the American military. In addition to that we've got all these forward liabilities on these entitlement programs that, with the right tax and the energy policy, we can pay down and offset some of those liabilities.”

“My own sense is that fiction is inching its way over to join poetry on the cultural margin. It's an area of passionate concern for me, as for many people, but it's nowhere near as central to the culture as it used to be.”

“To me, the harmonica is like a voice.”

Source : "Ben Harper And Charlie Musselwhite Get Muddy". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep and Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. January 31, 2013.

“Spraying to kill trees and and raspberry bushes after a clear-cut merely looks unaesthetic for a short time, but tree plantations are deliberate ecodeath. Yet, tree planting is often pictorially advertised on television and in national magazines by focusing on cupped caring hands around a seedling. But forests do not need this godlike interference... Planting tree plantations is permanent deforestation... The extensive planting of just one exotic species removes thousands of native species.”