132 Quotes by Devendra Banhart

For a long time, soul music was maybe one of my favorite kinds of music.

Am I a pro-cult person? In no way!

I've always said that musicians are the comics of my generations and comedians are the politicians of my generation.

Real hippies don't like me at all. They can smell a real hippy.

Green is one of my favorite colors.

I don't even know what a hippy is. I mean, hippy is an evolution of the Sixties movement. A time when people were trying to make a difference, trying to write songs that were political. People grow old. The hippy camp kind of breaks off into different sects.

I don't ever think of myself as a dark person or a ruined person in any way. I just feel happy to be alive, and to be able to love.

We all have our vices, you know. One of my vices is ice cream.

It's embarrassing to quote Gandhi or something, but being the change you want to see in the world is pretty powerful.