Rock and roll was something to fall back on. If I had my choice, I'd be Jerry Rice and I'd be playing until I was forty-five.

There's two times of year for me: Football season, and waiting for football season.

You gotta laugh and love and take all life has to give. You gotta live and learn so you can learn to live.

When I was growing up, I always knew that if I ever got anything, I was going to give back as much as I can. I learned that all you have to be willing to do is give your time.

You gotta love and learn and learn to live.

I think people who go out and tell you how much they're gonna change things are the people who end up being just another whatever. I'm never trying to change anything. That's not for me.

It was important to me to find a label that wouldn't back out after a first single. Everyone's so used to hearing me with Hootie, they're going to be skeptical.

We went to church every Sunday. When I was a kid, the only time I sang was around my family.

I don't think I get the respect as a singer. With this record, I wanted to bring respect to my band.

I'm a kid who grew up in an all African-American neighborhood and got into schools and aspired to just be me, and didn't worry about labels or anything. Just wanted to be a success at what I did.

Find something that makes you want to give and give and give 'til it hurts.

When you learn to read you will be born again...and you will never be quite so alone again.

Overcoming the pain of self-discipline, we achieve our goals and move towards our dreams

Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther.

Better to be at the bottom of a ladder you want to climb than in the middle of some ladder you don’t, right?

Originality is deliberate and forced, and partakes of the nature of a protest.

While I'm doing [writing], I don't feel it.I don't think that's a failing. I think it's just a feature. Like, a feature of oneself.

If a heart becomes attached to anything other than Allah, Allah makes him dependent on what he is attached to. And he will be betrayed by it.

It is what it is. But you have the power to turn it into an isn't so bad.

Christmas celebrations are often full of sound. It would be good for us to make room for silence, to hear the voice of Love.