It should be a crime to abandon your child, and it's not. It would be wonderful if it could be criminalized.

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.

How bitter they cry in need, those who refuse to help others in trouble!

God draws near to the brokenhearted. He leans toward those who are suffering. He knows what it feels like to be wounded and abandoned.

You can recognize a saint by the wounds they don't disguise.

I prefer a loose woman to a selfish one and a wanton to a fool.

I Love Jesus Christ and that is why I am on fire with the desire to give Him souls, first of all my own, and then an incalculable number of others.

The hours of your life are the most valuable currency you will ever have. How will you spend them?

The flower of #‎ consciousness needs the mud out of which it grows.

That takes a lot of confidence to let your actors come up with something that could be theoretically funnier than what you had envisioned originally.

I broke my heart for every gain, to taste the sweet I faced the pain.

Sweet flowers are slow and weeds make haste.