Michael Franti

• "Television, the drug of the nation, breeding ignorance and feeding radiation..."
• "They say they blame it on a song when someone kills a cop, what music did they listen to when they bombed Iraq?"
• "You can bomb the world into pieces, but you can't bomb it into peace..."
• "Love is the shit that makes life bloom and you never know when you might step in it!"

Interview

• "Music has the ability to pull emotions out of people that they didn't know existed. Through the beat and melody and through storytelling we are all part of a long ancient tradition and music can be used as much for good as it can be for evil."