“I was into acting as a kid. There was a time when I was 18 that I play...” — Matisyahu Quote

“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.”

“In Judaism, there are a lot of rules - everything from which fingernail you cut first to which side you sleep on in bed, to the way you get dressed in the morning, to actual ideas, like ideas about being chosen people or ideas about female/male and how to interact with people from the opposite sex.”

“I started at home as a kid putting on shows and lip-syncing Michael Jackson for the grown-ups. Then, in musicals and plays in school. At 17, I was performing in coffee shops and in parking lots at Phish shows. At 18, I had a band that played local shows in the Northwest.”

“John Kitzhaber was a visionary leader for Oregon.”

“There is no such thing as a weekend for me when I'm at home on my ranch in Oregon.”

“The history of Oregon is partially the history of a state that legislated not wanting black people around.”