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The beauty of life is not knowing.
I'm vulnerable reading people's comments on Facebook.
Reggae music isn't Jewish, but a lot of the ideas are.
For me now, what I've come to is, we don't know anything.
Who’s gonna make you happy when you’re your own worst enemy?
What blows me away most is how sure people are of themselves.
It's unbelievable to me how sure people can be of themselves.
Judaism is my life. Everything I do is through the lens of Torah.
I am reclaiming myself. Trusting my goodness and my divine mission.
My music is not really about one ideology. It's not about one truth.
Every record I do is a learning process for how I want to do the next one.
Music has always been such an amazing tool for me to access self and emotion.
Most of my life wasn't about knowledge from books, but experiential knowledge.
The world that I come from is the world of raves, hip-hop clubs, and rock and roll.
Vulnerability is a wonderful thing. We're all so afraid to be vulnerable in this world.
I can show you where to dig, and what to dig for, but the digging you must do for yourself.
My music is really about people connecting with their identities, even if they aren't Jewish.
If I've grown as an artist, it will be represented in the art. There's no need to explain it.
When people feel a certain religion claims to have all the answers, that's what turns them off.
The kind of music I'm trying to make is conscious, to make people think and feel and get inspired.
Everyone's right or wrong, Everyone's got an opinion, put them in a song and let me keep on living.
The religious lifestyle keeps you focused. It's helpful when trying to manoeuvre through the music scene.
The Jewish world is becoming fully integrated with the ideas of the normal world. They feed off each other.
When I'm onstage, I'm not thinking about ideas. I'm not in my head at all. It's a more physical experience.
I don't think you could pull one Bob Marley song that didn't have quotes from the Torah or the Old Testament.
I kind of think that music in general is a sacred thing, and that's what music has kind of always been for me.
Change is an internal thing. Different things happen or transform, and music and art is a documentation of that.
Before I was 14, I wanted to be a singer, an actor, or a hockey player. By 15, I knew I was going to be a singer.
People get so caught up in needing to know and having to prove themselves to be right, and I'm blown away by this.
When you meet somebody who is vulnerable, there is an attraction. There is something to that. There is beauty there.
You're looking for help from God, you say he couldn't be found. Looking up to the sky and searchin' beneath the ground.
I always had a love of music, from the time I was a little kid, dressing up and singing along with Michael Jackson songs.
I think my music has always been a mixture, depending on whom I'm working with - what band, what musicians, what producer.
People aren't religious because it's easy not to be. Like anything, it's habitual, and once it's a habit it's no longer hard.
A lot of people believe a lot of things. People also believe in a lot of ideas or hold tight to a lot of ideologies and beliefs.
There's something really powerful when I, for example, hear Bob Marley's 'Exodus' - we know where we're going. We know where we're from.
I can't choose the most meaningful song that I've written. That would be like choosing one child over another. But first borns are always special.
I would say that as I've gotten older, I trust my intuition more; I allow myself more freedom both musically, creatively and my own life existentially.
I always knew I was different and that people had opinions about me. I guess I learned as best as I can to shield out a lot and live my life from within.
The best part of touring is the opportunity to make the music. You get to do what you love and have the ability to go out on stage every night and create.
We know nothing. And just because you know something to be true at this moment in your life or you feel that it is true, you can never be sure of yourself.
I feel there's a lot of anti-Israel sentiment in the world and a lot of ignorance about what Israel is and does. But it's not for me to speak on Israel's behalf.
I was into acting as a kid. There was a time when I was 18 that I played the boy in a production of 'Equus' in Oregon, and I thought that was going to be my life.
Some artists are bound to an image: Bob Marley has dreadlocks, Matisyahu has a beard. But that's a reminder that the whole thing is not about style. It's about music.
All my life I been waitin' for I been prayin' for, for the people to say that we don't want to fight no more. They'll be no more wars and our children will play, one day.
The place that I'm trying to come from and where I'm trying to make music from is when I feel like I'm able to somehow, like, transcend it all and just speak right to God.
With music, you're working with a producer, and you walk out of the studio six hours later with a track that's almost completely finished. There's an almost immediate payoff.
When I was 17, I listened to reggae music. I loved Bob Marley. I started growing dreadlocks. It's always been my way, that the outside matches what's going on with me inside.
I don't really know if I would consider myself anything in particular. I would say I'm inspired in a Hasidic way, but I certainly don't keep all the customs and rules I once did.
Reach for the sky Keep your eye on the prize Forever in my mind Be my golden sunshine It's raining in your mind So push them clouds aside Forever by my side You're my golden sunshine