Most of my songs are about Jesus. Most of my songs are about the idea that there is salvation, and that there is a Savior. But I won't mention his name in a song just to get a cheap play.

The day you open your mind to music, you're halfway to opening your mind to life.

Respect yourself. Try to remember that not everything in life can be perfect. You will make mistakes. That's inevitable. But you are not ugly. You will only be ugly when you behave in an ugly way.

It's like the mod thing is happening again.

I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf.

Is your perception of 'I Heard It Through the Grapevine' so shallow that it's violated by dancing raisins?

He is the king. If it hadn't been for Link Wray and 'Rumble,' I would have never picked up a guitar.

I was born with a plastic spoon in my mouth.

Rock 'n' Roll might not solve your problems, but it does let you dance all over them

Keith Moon, God rest his soul, once drove his car through the glass doors of a hotel, driving all the way up to the reception desk, got out and asked for the key to his room.

I believe rock can do anything, it's the ultimate vehicle for everything

Consider your own place in the universal oneness of which we are all a part, from which we all arise, and to which we all return.

Everything from who sits on your local board of education to the prosecutors and judicial appointments in your area and much more are all impacted by who holds political office.

I don't want something special. I want something beautifully plain.

I think people have a right to speak. And you have a right if you're on a college campus not to attend. You have a right to ask hard questions about the speaker if you disagree with him or her.

There is this difference between happiness and wisdom; he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.

Let's keep making inexpensive movies.

my cousin Shirley, who never complains, screamed and screamed when she was having her baby. True, this was just during conception.

Forty-eight years is almost enough time to hold a record.

Part of being an actor is almost self-hypnosis during those brief moments when the cameras are rolling. You want to actually believe you're Chris Gardner or Muhammad Ali.