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

- Michael Franti
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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.

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.

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.

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.

There are so many things to be worried about, and I wanted to make a record that people could put on, and it would lift them up the way the sun did for me each day.

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

Jamaica's a country of great dichotomy. On the one hand you have a tourist industry with great beaches and resorts, but on the other you have such great poverty and the violence that goes along with that.

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.

My usual day is I get up around 11 o'clock and do yoga and then eat afterwards. Then I have sound check and play soccer and do running with the guys in the band after sound check, and then do the show and eat dinner after the show and usually get to bed around 3 o'clock by the time we get everybody on the bus and get rolling.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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