Music is such a joy, just an absolute joy.

If I wasn't my age, I would turn a flip. I would do some cartwheels. That's how I feel.

I'm singing these songs to inspire you, to keep you going, to lift you up and give you a reason to get up in the morning

There's still injustice happening in my world. I sing my songs at concerts and I'm so grateful that the people are ready to hear them.

I won't wear rings and jewelry on the stage because I don't want you looking at my hands. I want you hearing what I'm saying.

I have to pinch myself sometimes. It's unbelievable, but it's not. Because I know that this would not be happening if it hadn't been for Dr. Martin Luther King.

Well Lord, I'm still on the case. I'm still doing what Dr. King and Pops want me to do. I'm still on that freedom highway, and I'm going to walk on it until Dr. King's dream is realized.

I never sang for a Grammy, for money, for fame. That's my whole purpose for singing: for people, for the fans.

We stay strong. We stay positive, keep our heads up, love one another, spread love. The Devil can't win when you have God on your side.

There is a great feeling in a small venue, with the closeness of the people and the intimacy.

I have fun just about everywhere I go.

If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack.

I developed a problem with authority. Any time that authority was what I interpreted as being unjust, I stood up to it, and that became my personality.

The emphasis on the birth of Christ tends to polarize our pluralistic society and create legal and ethnic belligerence.

I think, though, with that whole sense of integrity and a lot of things that have been going on, the shared leadership rather than the titular head.

New Rule: The people of America who were most in favor of the Iraq War must now go there and fight it.

Scary is time passing and sickness and dying and regret and isolation and loneliness and relationship problems - as opposed to a guy in a hockey mask, which didn't seem that scary.

We have a brain for one reason and one reason only - and that's to produce adaptable and complex movements.

The dog that I was given on The Hills for Christmas is with my best friend's family.

wherever the TV glows, there sits someone who isn't reading.

When you make an observation, you have an obligation.