A musician must lift up the souls of the listeners, and take them towards space.

I don't want to settle down because God has satisfied me and heard my prayers. I want to stay hungry and thirsty for the things of God.

I got to focus on my performance - learning how to perform is something I've been working on both personally and professionally.

You had no faith to lose and you know it.

Every generation proclaims that each must lead his own life, but seldom grants the subsequent generation the right to lead theirs.

[Calvin Trilllin] is not writing about things that I can criticize. I can call these other people out for what I think they are not doing. There's a big difference.

Now I am as big of an [ Georgia] O'Keeffe admirer as Ivy [Wilkes] is, but that came through writing the book.

Confidence, not paper or digital money, is the key currency in a capitalist system.

A man should remove not only unnecessary acts, but also unnecessary thoughts, for then superfluous activity will not follow.

God needs blood to fix the universe, but only his own blood had enough magical power to do it, so he gave himself a body and then killed it.

It's very easy for me to just encourage people in their family life and in their children. It's just very natural to me. It's what I feel comfortable doing, and so I enjoy it.