The music industry has been hijacked by corporate interests, but the way music affects people and resonates with them hasn’t changed.
The human interest, and the natural interest, and the spiritual interest of this planet need to begin to take a priority over the corporate interest, the military interest, and the materialistic interests.
Star Wars is mythology. Its like Greek mythology or Shakespeare. Its the story of good versus evil over a very long span of time. The storytelling is universal and timeless.
When you’re in Jamaica, unless you’re in a tourist spot, you don’t hear Bob Marley; you mostly hear dance hall music.
Investing now in safe-guarding people by helping them to adapt to climate change, will help save money and lives while building resilience.
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.
Can’t keep Love like money in the bank.
When we all see justice, then we’ll all see peace!
Today we are in a war against war – music is our power.
My parents said sticks and stones will break your bones but names will never hurt you. But I always felt a sense of exhilaration after a fight; it was the names that really hurt me.
Playing on the streets of Iraq, or in Israel or the Gaza strip, I’d sing angry protest songs against war. People would say, ‘Make us clap, make us dance, and laugh and sing.’ It really made me think about the importance of happy 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.
San Francisco has always been a haven for misfits and weirdos. I’m both of those, which is why I came here.
It shouldn’t be a Republican or Democratic issue whether we take care of the environment. That should be a human issue.
You say you’re a Christian, cause God made you, you say you’re a Muslim cause God made you, you say you’re a Hindu and the next man a Jew, but then we all kill each other cause God told us to? Naw!
Those who start wars never fight them, and those who fight wars never like them.
If we do not change our negative habits toward climate change, we can count on worldwide disruptions in food production, resulting in mass migration, refugee crises and increased conflict over scarce natural resources like water and farm land. This is a recipe for major security problems.
Sometimes the hardest thing to do is just to stay human.
When I first started out, I thought it was enough to make an angry song that pointed out the problems of the world.
I went to the University of San Francisco on an athletic scholarship. I didn’t study in high school. I was just there to get by and to play basketball. But a funny thing happened to me when I got to college. I got challenged by the work and the professors.
I think my soul is intact, but my methods of reaching people are completely different.