I know that I have done many things to give you reason not to listen to me

I don't do anything in order to cause trouble. It just so happens that what I do naturally causes trouble. I'm proud to be a troublemaker.

Women are to be valued for so much more than their sexuality. We aren’t merely objects of desire.

I understand that we are actually complicated people but we are also dreadfully simple.

I don't believe in any kind of artistic snobbery or musical snobbery. You know, to me, the sexiest and the most spiritual words ever uttered in rock and roll are wop babaloo balop bam boom.

Maybe it was mean, but I really don't think so. You asked for the truth and I told you.

When you dishonor the the utter glory and majesty of black people, you lie. Your heart lies to you and you let it

I grew up in a situation of extreme abuse, but there was no chance to talk about it, so music became the escape if you like.

At some point the entire population of the earth is gonna have to look back at the kind of essence of spirituality which is basically caring about each other.

We have a tradition of passing our history orally and singing a lot of it and writing songs about it and there's kind of a calling in Irish voices when they're singing in their Irish accent.

When I kissed you, you didn't mind. I thought I tasted of too many cigarettes, but you tasted like wine.

Freedom is a terrible burden, much too heavy for the weak man to bear.

West Virgina never left Katherine's heart, but Virginia was her destiny.

Any accomplishment is possible with God’s grace.

Now suddenly you got members of your [White House] team who were 23, 24. They've met their wives here, or their husbands here.

Time is an experience in consciousness. It is metabolized as our biological clock. Changing our experience of time can reverse aging.

Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world, the mottos of which are: 'To take is more blessed than to give'; 'buy cheap and sell dear'; 'one soiled hand washes the other.

I think spirituality is a good thing but I dislike any sort of dogmatic organization.

And after a while...I mean how do you choose? Who gets to live? Part of life is that...well, some people have to die.

I never could have dreamed that her heart was so wicked, but I keep coming back because it's so hard to kick it.

Setting goals helps bring your future into your present and the present is the only time we can take action.