People used to think of vocal music as boring choir stuff, once you figured out that you can do crazy beat-boxing, awesome bass lines (and) throw everything together, you just have really cool music.

This is life's greatest moment, when the soul unfolds capacities which reach beyond earth's boundaries.

Religion is the answer to that cry of Reason which nothing can silence, that aspiration of the soul which no created thing can meet, that want of the heart which all creation cannot supply.

I have this strange feeling none of this is really happening. Like I'm standing far away from myself. Like nothing is real. Have you ever had a feeling like that?

When I can no longer create anything I'll be done for.

People who know me, know who I am.

Better to work and fail than to sleep one's life away.

Most songs come from being attentive. Attentive to life, attentive to scripture, attentive to your heart. Pay attention!

I did not believe what I was told about being poor and black and female in Mississippi in 1954.

Stay away from philosophy, kids: it will ruin your mind.

I think that England made a very big, historical mistake to allow itself to become the kind of terrorist capital of the world.

The Iraq war was not necessary.

To be honest, because there's loud music in my ears probably three hours a day, between sound check and the show, I listen to podcasts more than I listen to music on the road.