The best part is still ahead of me - I haven't experienced my 'good old days' yet.

My father would lift me high. And dance with my mother and me and then. Spin me around til I fell asleep. Then up the stairs he would carry me and I knew for sure I was loved.

The best things in life are free

One look in your eyes and there I see just what you mean to me. Here in my heart I believe your love is all I'll ever need

Superman can fly high way up in the sky 'cause we believe he can. So what we choose to believe can always work out fine...It's all in the mind.

Whenever I say goodbye its never for long because I believe in the power of love.

I'd like to be remembered as a premier singer of songs, not just a popular act of a given period.

When I was larger, people said I was fat. Now that I've lost weight, they say I died.

I feel a sense of sadness and joy. Mostly sadness though about what I've experienced and sadness about what others have experienced in reference to the stroke.

How I'd love, love, love, to dance with my Father again.

All through school, I was losing hundreds of pounds in school, so that's a journey - that's an old journey. I'm tired of that. I know that road.

Don't live off your past successes or failures, live for the next big pursuit.

Do not expect to receive love from someone else you do not give yourself

It's God's world. He washes you clean. He makes you whole. He puts rain in your garden and sunshine in your heart. "Clarence

I've always felt, even as a songwriter, that the rhythm of speech is in itself a language for me.

You cannot demand truth, and then select half and throw the inconvenient remainder away.

I just mix and put things together the way the spirit moves me.

Hollywood has a way of making everything seem like an overnight success.

Hate radio, hate speech, hate groups, hate crimes really don't fit in, in the America that we know today.

I also don't like to make really big records, because I feel then that the songs don't get enough space to be themselves, so I would never want to make a record that's like seventeen songs.

According to the Hindu way of thinking, marriage is rather a duty than a privilege.