I'm singing, you know, because I'm happy and I'm free.

Singing is my life. And when I can do that, that's when I'm free. That's when I'm at my happiest, I'm at my most.

I'm not going to sing something if it doesn't make sense to me, or if it makes me look like I'm begging someone or I'm weak, because that's not me.

Some people can sit down and write a song, but they can't go on stage like I can.

Play with me and you play with fire.

I'm going to keep on keeping on as long as I've got my health and strength, and God gives me that will to do it.

God's eye is on a sparrow. And I know - oh, yes, I know he watches over me...

Music is my happiness, my joy, and when my body wasn't right I couldn't get into my music without being healed, without being healthy.

When I'm on tour, I don't see these spots as much as I'd like. I'm just in, I perform, then I'm out. I hope to spend years sightseeing, then more years after that.

I miss my hair, but I feel like going out there with some fake braids wouldn't be right. I want to be the most genuine performer I can be.

We chose it's name [Give the People What They Want] a while ago, long before the cancer. But I can't think of a more fitting title.

The word is half his that speaks and half his that hears it.

Man's command of the language is most important. Next to kissing it's the most exciting form of communication.

I have the body of an eighteen year old. I keep it in the fridge.

There were some feelings you never forgot.

Who has time to make up stories when the truth is so much more interesting?

You lose power to the people and circumstances you judge. They capture your attention in the same way that a movie does.

One of the hardest jobs in ministry is keeping your own relationship with God where it needs to be.

It's as certain that as long as fossil fuels are the cheapest energy, we will just keep burning them.

Love is not to be proven or measured...It exists, and that is enough.

Science is not a body of knowledge nor a system of belief; it is just a term which describes humankind’s incremental acquisition of understanding through observation. Science is awesome.