Find something that makes you want to give and give and give 'til it hurts.

There's two times of year for me: Football season, and waiting for football season.

You gotta laugh and love and take all life has to give. You gotta live and learn so you can learn to live.

When I was growing up, I always knew that if I ever got anything, I was going to give back as much as I can. I learned that all you have to be willing to do is give your time.

You gotta love and learn and learn to live.

I think people who go out and tell you how much they're gonna change things are the people who end up being just another whatever. I'm never trying to change anything. That's not for me.

It was important to me to find a label that wouldn't back out after a first single. Everyone's so used to hearing me with Hootie, they're going to be skeptical.

We went to church every Sunday. When I was a kid, the only time I sang was around my family.

I don't think I get the respect as a singer. With this record, I wanted to bring respect to my band.

I'm a kid who grew up in an all African-American neighborhood and got into schools and aspired to just be me, and didn't worry about labels or anything. Just wanted to be a success at what I did.

All the doors that I had to close. All the things I knew but I didn't know. Thank God for all I missed. 'Cause it led me here to this.

I will listen to a beautiful person much more quickly than a plain person, and I have to learn to be nice to people who are not attractive looking.

Once you take the cat out of the bag, you can't cram it back in.

If you live for this world, you are in the junk business. It's all just premature junk.

Knowledge of the investment is most profitable

It ain't my cup of meat.

When you reject the Creator, you worship the Creation (Ro 1:23).

Deep down, nobody wants a job to occupy his or her time. We want a mission that inspires us.

No matter what they wish for, no matter how far they go, people can never be anything but themselves. That's all.

Television is a media of crisis, which means that television is a media of accidents.

One of the best things that happened for me as a playwright is becoming a comic-book writer.