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" 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. "

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" 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. "

Michael Franti

Mother

Music

Piano

" I hope I inspire people to dream bigger than what they are living, but a dream within their reach. "

" Every single soul is a poem. "

" 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. "

" Everyone deserves music. "

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

" 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. "

" Music has the power to bring people together like no other art form. "

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

" 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. "

" I eat bags and bags of cashews. I've got them in the kitchen, and about ten feet away I've got another bowl on the kitchen table. In my backpack, I've always got a bag of cashews. I started eating them in the airports because that's the one food that you can find in every airport that's actually nutritious. "

" 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. "

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

" The music industry has been hijacked by corporate interests, but the way music affects people and resonates with them hasn't changed. "

" Today we are in a war against war - music is our power. "

" During my travels in Iraq, Israel, Gaza, Brazil, Indonesia, Japan, Europe and all over the United States, I have seen and heard the voices of people who want change. They want the stabilization of the economy, education and healthcare for all, renewable energy and an environmental vision with an eye on generations to come. "

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

" Johnny Cash was a rebel, not only just in the musical sense, but he was somebody who was for the people, and an advocate for labor, for workers, for prisoners, people who have been trapped by the criminal justice system. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The world can't have a global solution to climate change with U.S. action alone; and the world can't have a global solution without U.S. action. "

" 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. "

" After a show, I'll get the 16-year-old white kid whose lip is pierced, his head is shaved and his parents hate him, and the young gangster from the screwed-up 'hood, and they say that now they realize there's someone out there who thinks like they do. "

" 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?' "

Michael Franti

Feel Good

Good

" 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. "

" We have a saying in my house, my kids and my girlfriend. We say, 'Be your best for the greater good, and rock out wherever you are.' "

" No life's worth more than any other, no sister worth less than any brother. "

" 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. "

Michael Franti

Think

Hollywood

" My greatest sense of accomplishment has come from having two amazing sons, but it's also a paradox in that the times when I felt like the biggest failure have been times when I felt like, as a parent, I wasn't making the right decisions or succeeding in the way that I should. "