When I was 20, I wanted to be famous and win a Grammy and have people respect and love me.

I do devotion in the morning. I pray and I read the word.

All one can really leave one's children is what's inside their heads. Education, in other words, and not earthly possessions, is the ultimate legacy, the only thing that cannot be taken away.

The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives all else is claimed by death.

We cannot make owners by merely giving men something to own. And, I repeat, whether there be sufficient desire for property left upon which we can work, only experience can decide.

I couldn't hear a thing in the world but you. And it was so cold then, and so silent, and I loved you so much. Now it's hot and dead quiet again, and I love you still.

I'm glad I took that time to work really hard on the music. I feel the effects of that now in a positive way with my connection with the audience.

Above all, you must remain open and fresh and alive to any new idea.

I always get asked how fast I can run and the answer is 'faster.'

I lost my public self, or had it stolen. In a way, it was a form of identity theft.

It all starts with the script: it's not worth taking myself away from my family if I don't have something I'm really passionate about.

How did we ever get the idea that God would supply us on demand with quick fixes, that God is merely a rescuer and not a midwife?