Matisyahu
Matisyahu
Matthew Paul Miller, known by his Hebrew and stage name Matisyahu, is a Jewish American reggae vocalist, beatboxer, and alternative rock musician...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth30 June 1979
CountryUnited States of America
goodness divine missions
I am reclaiming myself. Trusting my goodness and my divine mission.
ideas beard trust-myself
The idea that God’s mercy is connected to whether or not I shave is ludicrous and I need to just trust myself, and that, you know, if I’m deserving of God’s mercy, I’ll get it, regardless of, you know, my beard,
people unbelievable
It's unbelievable to me how sure people can be of themselves.
godly light shining
When there's light shining on a tree, that tree takes on different meaning. If there's no light at all it just looks dead. If you look at light as godly meaning, the world comes alive in a certain way.
book
Most of my life wasn't about knowledge from books, but experiential knowledge.
black-and-white different world
We're so quick to go to make things black and white, and to put things in their box. But everything is this mixture - and that's what this world is - is this blend of different things.
religious real party
There is an assumption if you are not religious, you have fallen, or you are further from God, or you are not doing the right thing. The judgment on me, with regard to my changes, is that he must be out all night partying or banging prostitutes and doing blow. This whole thing for me was absolutely the contrary. It was actually that God started to become very real to me, inside.
song opinion let-me
Everyone's right or wrong, Everyone's got an opinion, put them in a song and let me keep on living.
thinking sight people
I think there is a tendency for people to get rigid and caught up in their beliefs of what is right and wrong, and they lose sight of humanity. Being human has to come first before right or wrong.
digging shows i-can
I can show you where to dig, and what to dig for, but the digging you must do for yourself.
became bob came music natural reggae singing spoke
I got into Bob Marley, I got into reggae music. And that music just spoke to me and so it just became natural that when I started writing lyrics, and started singing them, they came out in that way.
hockey ice loved
I loved ice hockey. I used to play ice hockey. So, you know I wanted to be a hockey player.
asked gonna mean question
I never really thought of it. I mean I get asked the question all the time. If someone comes to a show because they think like, 'Oh, this is gonna be funny' or something they're gonna get there and they're gonna see that's not what this is about.
cool dad laid mom
They flipped. I mean, my dad was pretty cool about it actually. He was much more laid back about it. And mom really -- she really had a breakdown.