There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.

Let me be candid, my party is full of racists

Let's go to Valhalla with the sun on our faces.

All artists are constantly looking for something and they don't always know what.

This is my genre...the happiness, tragedies, and the sorrows of mankind as realized in the teeming black ghetto.

And it is not necessary to have great things to do. I turn my little omelette in the pan for the love of God.

If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out.

I would describe my work as expressionist. The expressionist point of view is stressing your own feelings about something.

To worship God in truth is to recognize Him for being who He is, and to recognize ourselves for what we are.

If I don't have anything to do all day, I might not even put my pants on.

We ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God, who regards not the greatness of the work, but the love with which it is performed.

Live with a mission

I haven't written in a week. It's like holding your breath under water. You feel an awful constriction and then the instinct to propel yourself.

Commercial to the core, Elvis was the kind of singer dear to the heart of the music business. For him to sing a song was to sell asong. His G clef was a dollar sign.

If gratitude is due from children to their earthly parent, how much more is the gratitude of the great family of men due to our father in heaven.

As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities.

Corporations complained about [safety] regulations, but let's face it, people walk away from accidents now that would have killed them when I was a kid

One can never go back. One always has to move forward.

The more accountable I can make you, the easier it is for you to show youre a great performer.

Southern change gonna come at last! Now your crosses are burning fast, Southern Man.

He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.