I was angry and frightened, and I was scared. I knew what I had done. The whole night is my fault. None of this would have happened if I didn’t drink.

I don't trust you with my shoe; I wouldn't trust you with an old pair of socks.

Life is a journey, and I'm finding myself every day!

I really don't care what people think of me. I've got my family. I've got my friends. Yes, I have been trained to be a little more aggressive if I need to be, but I don't go around thumping people.

There are men and women so lonely they believe God, too, is lonely.

During the songs, you transcend yourself. The best way to be in the performance is to be without pause and be essentially in the moment, in that moment of expression.

It's a mistake to think that we have to be lovely to be loved by human beings or by God

Writers don't write to inform other people, they write to find out something themselves.

It is not the bowing, the dancing, the clapping and the singing that produce the worship, for at best they can only express that worship, but it is the worship that produces the jubilant responses.

Ronald Reagan's attack on people who receive public assistance was partially an attack on people of color.

I think a life in music is a life beautifully spent, and this is what I have devoted my life to.

Take the kinks out your mind, not your hair.

Do anything rather than give yourself to reverie.