We leaders are criticized for a lot of things. It's always true after a band gets up there and is recognized by the public.

A band ought to have a sound all of its own. It ought to have a personality.

We didn't come here to set any fashions in music. We merely came to bring a much-needed touch of home to some lads who have been here a couple of years.

We can speak our honest minds without compromise and without censorship and to each other and to our people. We can take our message directly to our people.

I thought I had swell ideas, and wonderful musicians, but the hell of it, no one else did.

Why do you judge me as a musician, John? All I'm interested in is making money.

I haven't a great Jazz band and I don't want one.

You don't have to do anything. Why worry? It's all god's plan anyway. Just love everyone and believe.

The heart of a Christian, who believes and feels, cannot pass the hardships and deprivations of the poor without helping them.

Pure potentiality is a phrase that denotes that pure consciousness is the true essence that lies in us.

There's no such thing as a mistake, really. It's just an opportunity to do something else.

Why then you're as mad as me. No, madder. For I distrust 'reality' and its moron mother, the universe, while you fasten your innocence to fallible devices which pretend at happy endings.

Guys can smell desperation. It triggers an instinct in them to run far and fast so they aren't around when a woman starts peeling apart her heart.

It has always amazed and humbled me to how the risk to bloom can seem so insurmountable beforehand and so inevitably freeing once the threshold of suffering is crossed.

Very, very rarely will I leave San Antonio to speak somewhere else. I used to do that, and it just about wore me out, so I quit traveling.

It wasn't his, it wasn't my fault, we both had nothing except patience, but Death has none. I saw him come (how meanly!) and I watched him as he took and took: none of it I could claim as mine.

How others treat me is their path; how I react is mine.

The collisions happen 40 yards down the field, so if you take off from 5 yards or 10, it does not even matter. Do I make sense? I mean, come on.