You can bomb the world to pieces, but you can't bomb it into peace. Power to the peaceful.

The corporate media is there to push the agenda of the sponsors, and many of those sponsors are weapons manufacturers. So it stands to reason that you won't get a diversity of opinions on television.

I'm always trying to find optimistic ways to express myself.

All the freaky people make the beauty of the world.

I drive a hybrid. It's a Ford Escape. That's my only car.

I'm a news junkie who's constantly reading newspapers and magazines. I look around and see what's happening in the world.

Collectively, we activists are essential to advancing U.S. policy to help empower marginalized people to lift themselves and their communities out of poverty for good.

My mother, she made sure all of us were treated the same and had the same opportunity to grow and develop, so that when we left the house, we could fly on our own. And she also knew when we got out into the world, we'd treat others that we came across with that same treatment and respect.

My music is part of the quest I have to find new ways of telling stories, and also, I want to inspire people.

The more places I go to, the more I realize I understand so little about the world.

The way the music comes to you starts to affect how you listen to music. When you're a kid, it's 'Does it rock? Does it make me feel good? Does it make me tap my feet? Does it make me go to sleep?'

Music is too loud for just one station, love is too large for just one nation life is too short to make just one decision and god is too big for just one religion.

I really believe that, as an artist, my opportunity to help to bring about awakening is one that should come from a personal process that someone has, and not from me telling somebody that this is the way it is.

Every single soul is a poem.

Power to the peaceful!

My usual day is I get up around 11 o'clock and do yoga and then eat afterwards. Then I have sound check and play soccer and do running with the guys in the band after sound check, and then do the show and eat dinner after the show and usually get to bed around 3 o'clock by the time we get everybody on the bus and get rolling.

I really encourage people to travel so we can see how the rest of the world views our country. That's really important. Secondly, as artists, activists, and citizens who vote, we have to begin to vote from our heart.

It doesn't matter if you're black, white, gay, straight, come from different countries, different language... every single person is significant and is meaningful.

Traveling to the Middle East and playing music for people on the street, for soldiers, for people in hospitals, and for people who lost their homes, and seeing people open up through the experience of music really restored my faith in music, in art, and in culture to change things.

When someone can't afford to wear shoes, it's not just about them not having shoes on that day. It's about a cycle of poverty that exists within their community.

I came up playing in both punk rock bands and hip-hop bands, and I found a more universal way of reaching people, especially with music that has a message to it.

With all the people hating and hurting each other, I don't understand how people could get upset about people of the same sex caring for each other.

Everybody's opinion is equally valid, and I feel like everybody should have an opportunity to speak out, and everyone should have the courage to speak out.

When I first started, my songs were the politics of anger. As I got older and hopefully wiser, I wanted to be part of the politics of answers.

Many kids in foster homes have a lot of emotions that are hard to get out. It's important to let them know they can make a difference in the community.

My house was filled with music. We had a piano, and my brothers and sisters played instruments. Even though I was around it, I played basketball.

Music was a central part of my childhood because my mother played organ and piano in the church, and that meant all us kids had to be in the church choir.

'Star Wars' is mythology. It's like Greek mythology or Shakespeare. It's the story of good versus evil over a very long span of time. The storytelling is universal and timeless.

You get everything you could have ever wished for if you're willing to give that eternal bliss away to somebody else, to give it back.

I have moments all the time when I play.

Music gives us new energy and a stronger sense of purpose.

It's a really personal thing for me to write a song.

In Jamaica, the music is recorded for the sound system, not the iPod. It's about experiencing music together, with other people.

Our country was founded on immigration. We are all occupying Native American land here. At what point do we say 'It's our land, and nobody else can come here.'

I have a desire that I want to make people feel happy through my music. I'm always trying to find optimistic ways to express myself.

In the '80s, Ronald Reagan inspired me to become politicized, because I grew up in that era when everything I cared about was under attack.

San Francisco has always been a haven for misfits and weirdos. I'm both of those, which is why I came here.

Not all artists have a responsibility to be socially or politically aware, but they do have a responsibility to make great art. They have to find some truth and put that in their music.

To sit back and say, 'Oh, we're going to let the government do whatever they want, right or wrong,' is giving up.

When you're in Jamaica, unless you're in a tourist spot, you don't hear Bob Marley; you mostly hear dance hall music.

There are so many things to be worried about, and I wanted to make a record that people could put on, and it would lift them up the way the sun did for me each day.

When I first started out, I thought it was enough to make an angry song that pointed out the problems of the world.

I think my soul is intact, but my methods of reaching people are completely different.

I don't know if music can change the world overnight but I know that music can help someone make it through a difficult night.

Through music I either tame my demons or unleash them and allow them to be what they are. I don't want the music to be about provocation, I want the music to bring you to a place where you feel at home.

Everyone deserves music.

People underestimate the hip-hop audience and the capacity to understand politics when it's part of music.

I don't know if it's so grand that I can change the entire world, but I know that I can help one person. So that's the goal.

I think that fear comes about when there's things in the world that we want to change, things we're scared or angry about, and we can't change them, and so we become fearful; we develop anxiety.

I always identified with that feeling of being an underdog. So I always was looking to connect with and meet people from other cultures, to experience people living a different life that I am.