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.

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.

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.

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.

Every single soul is a poem.

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.

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.

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?'

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

All the freaky people make the beauty of the world.

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

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.

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

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You get below the Mason-Dixon line and you have some of the best music, culture, the two races, the literature, and it's so rich.

I've always liked country music. It's a certain aspect of America that goes back to the British Isles and the influence is very native to America.

If you're performing music that is not who you are or where you're at, it is painful. It's painful for the performer and for the audience.

Dancing was always part of my culture growing up in Barbados. When I shot my 1st video I worked really hard with my choreographer to perfect the routines.

Music is in my DNA!