It's like soul music, isn't it all soul music? Otherwise what is it, non-soul music? I-have-no-soul music? Soulless music? People need to put a name on something to identify it, and I understand it.

I have been a provoker and I'll probably always be one in the public arena for the rest of my life.

I really love that type of music where someone can take a guitar or light instrumentation and a beautiful voice and can send me somewhere.

The pleasure of other people is a byproduct of the pleasure that comes from yourself so I cannot judge or look down on someone who does whatever they feel like doing.

Anything lower than mid-six figures is not going to get me interested in that. And honestly, I just don't want to.

If tears were liquor/ I'd have drunk myself sick.

I've never presented myself as anything less than a flawed person.

When you get a chance to play with people - informally is one thing, but when you hook up and make something that's going to last or mean something to someone, I take it very seriously.

I'm a very private person. What I did in the past or what somebody heard me do or has a bootleg of me doing...well, if you have a bootleg, then I did it.

I think you can find yourself in life perhaps not really being the master of your own life and it is within your own will and tenacity whether you switch the roles or not.

You make music to move people and you don't get to pick who you move. You just don't. It's exclusionary and elitist and I just never felt that way about music, of all things. The great unifier.

Within its gates I heard the soundOf winds in cypress caverns caughtOf huddling tress that moaned, and soughtTo whisper what their roots had found.(“A Dream of Fear”)

You know a man is interesting when you forget to notice how expensive — or cheap — his clothes are.

I went to a restaurant that serves 'breakfast at any time'. So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance.

We are in a survival mentality, and that's hard-wired into our humanity, because we are the winners of an evolutionary struggle of millions and millions and millions of years.

There are so many things to be worried about, and I wanted to make a record that people could put on, and it would lift them up the way the sun did for me each day.

Money is not a substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness.

Few take up the burden of their own victory; most give up their dreams when these become impossible.

Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.

If you can talk brilliantly about a problem

It's been said racing encompasses hours of agony and moments of glory. But moments like the 1978 Triple Crown inspire the pursuit of greatness.