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" 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. "

" 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?' "

" Every single soul is a poem. "

" I've always found that the poorer the places that I go, the more smiles I see, and the more happiness I see. "

" 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'd play music on the street, especially in developing nations where a lot of kids couldn't wear shoes. In order to relate with kids that would be following me barefoot, I would take off my shoes, and they would all laugh at me because I couldn't go three steps without wincing. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" Music is sunshine. Like sunshine, music is a powerful force that can instantly and almost chemically change your entire mood. Music gives us new energy and a stronger sense of purpose. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I try to use the attention that I get to help and to serve, and that's really what I'd see as my work - to serve my community, serve the planet, serve my family. And I think a celebrity is someone who draws the attention on themselves, and then it kind of stops there. "

" We can bomb the world to pieces, but we can't bomb it into peace. "

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

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

" Like sunshine, music is a powerful force that can instantly and almost chemically change your entire mood. "

" I'm not an idealist. I know we're not going to be living in a world that's peace and love all the time. But we can live in a world where we kill each other a lot less. "

" The rap community has been singled out as more homophobic than other groups, but I don't think that's right. It's homophobic, all right, but no more so than the heavy-metal community or the Hollywood community or any other community. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Everyone deserves music. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I went to Iraq because I wanted to see what one year of occupation had done to Iraqi society, and I went to the West Bank and Gaza Strip because I wanted to see what three generations of occupation had done to Palestinian society. I found a lot more hopelessness and despair in Palestine. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "