I mean the flesh, never fade! The flesh never leave the creation, see, because with that divine spirit the flesh cannot fade. If the spirit is weak then the flesh fade, seen?

I am good. I live good. I think good. I don't have to feel good to be good, I take my goodness wherever I go.

My philosophy is: if you don't bear a cross, you can't wear a crown so you gotta go through some form of humiliation to reach tribulation.

Everyone's trying to reach the top. Tell me how far is it from the bottom.

And I ask why am I black, they say I was born in sin, and shamed inequity. One of the main songs we used to sing in church makes me sick, 'love wash me and I shall be whiter than snow.

It is only the TRUTH that can make a man FREE, it is only the TRUTH that can make a man LIVE.

In the beginning there was the word. The word was Jah. The word is in I, Jah is in I. I make what is good, better, and what is better, best. I follow this in every aspect of life.

My songs is hard stuff which politicians don't want on them radio station because they still want people to live in ignorancy.

Peace is a certificate you get in the grave.

I don't need no peace. I need equal rights and justice.

To have the truth in your possession you can be found guilty, sentenced to death.

You wan't to invent new ideas, not new rules.

The only person who can confine you is yourself.

I could wish there were a God, if it were only to ask him to bless thee.

However gemlike mathematical truths may be, research is but a human endeavor.

Republicans also took control of the Senate after gaining another seven seats. I haven't seen the GOP get this many seats since Chris Christie made an airline reservation.

We're actors, we have to do what we have to do, and you have to be really solid within yourself.

I'm sure that Elvis was happy for me. I think he was the kind of guy that enjoyed other people's success, especially if he had something to do with it.

People always think I hate doing interviews. I don't. I wouldn't do them if I didn't like them.

What bothers me most is that I don't bother you.

NASA even sent Chuck Berry's music on a space probe searching for intelligent life in outer space. Well, now, if they're out there, they're duck walking