“I remember the moment when it hit me. I was walking down Amsterdam Ave...” — Matisyahu Quote

“I remember the moment when it hit me. I was walking down Amsterdam Avenue on the Upper West Side, and it felt like I was literally walking out of a jail cell that I had been in. At that moment, I realized I could shave if I wanted. It was up to me and no one else.”

“The religious lifestyle keeps you focused. It's helpful when trying to manoeuvre through the music scene.”

“I think that listening to music or creating music is a spiritual undertaking, so the process of creating music, you know, involves listening. It involves sensitivity, it involves humility, you know, and then also it's something which is higher than words.”

“Everybody knows Johan Cruyff. And everybody knows the impact he had on the football world and on Amsterdam.”

“Amsterdam must have more than a million people. But the only area where jazz is really profitable and successful in an economic sense is in Japan. That's because they haven't been exposed enough.”

“Amsterdam was a great surprise to me. I had always thought of Venice as the city of canals; it had never entered my mind that I should find similar conditions in a Dutch town.”