Michael Franti

"Sometimes, I feel like I can do anything, and, sometimes, Im so alive, sometimes, I feel like I could zoom across the sky and, sometimes, I wanna cry."

"Im glad Bush is coming out so strongly against gay marriage, because I think its time in this country for people to wake up... If your partner happens to be the same sex as you, I dont have a problem with that and I dont think anyone else should. Were not doing a service to our kids by cloistering them from reality. Its better to discuss reality."

"I think after 9/11, when we were in our moment of greatest sadness as a nation... this small group of neo-conservatives used our pain in order to set their agenda on their course."

"Dont fear the nighttime, cause the monsters know that youre divine. Dont fear the sunshine, cause everythings better in the summertime"

"My goal has not ever been to change minds, my goal is to open minds."

"A lot of times we look at the whole world and think, its so daunting, how can we change the whole world? and you dont need to do that, what you need to do is change your world a little bit, and see if you can, through example, inspire others to do the same thing."

"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."

"You say youre a Christian, cause God made you, you say youre a Muslim cause God made you, you say youre a Hindu and the next man a Jew, but then we all kill each other cause God told us to? Naw!"

"The harder they hit us, the louder we become, kind of like the skin on a drum."

"We can bomb the world to pieces, but we cant bomb it into peace."

"Life is too short to make just one decision, music is too loud for just one station, love is too big for just one nation, and God is too big for just one religion!"

"People ask me a lot, what can one person do, and I say Im not really sure what one person can due except come together with other people."