All the music I write is a search for myself.

Some things will never change.

When I wrote the song, The Way It Is, I wanted to move people to take a stand on civil rights in this country.

While housing discrimination and segregation in 2005 still affect millions of people, that's not the way it has to be. Some things can change and should.

I guess after you've been doing something for 20 plus years, you have to work to stay interested.

I feel like what I owe my audience is what I'm most passionate about.

When I have the time at home, I'll practice three or four hours a day. I have to. And I'm a late starter; I started at age 17 and at age 51 I'm still learning.

We still play three or four hits every night. Now, we don't play them like the record. We try to find new ways to do it.

Made my bed and here I lie, try to hold my head up high. Lying to myself sometimes, bad decisions but I, I won't cry.

I'm a kid for a living: I get to play the piano for a living.

With ravenous passion and reckless ambition he forged his thoughts into words, obsessed with the notion that dying would not be the last thing he would do.

Mind your mind, soon, you will mine from it.

Life's a one way road, Don't just stand next to it and wait to get a pick-up back.

The more mistakes, the better the story afterwards. Especially if there's a happy ending.

Many large corporations are actually modeled on hell, ' Brother Frank added. 'The policies and organization are almost idential. Hell, of course, is much worse.

The greatest weakness of all is the great fear of appearing weak.

Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather. He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

A person must have a good memory to keep the promises he has made. A person must have a strong imagination to be able to have pity. So closely is morality tied to the quality of the intellect.

War is a bankruptcy of policy

But me contradicting a news story is not going to make my words fact. It will just create a new news story.