But when you see personal artifacts relating to - by genealogy at least - a living human being, it was just more impressive to me than just about anything I've ever read about slavery before.

With radio, the listener absorbs everything.

Public radio has always been so powerless.

I'm still excited at being at a microphone and talking to listeners. I love that. It's the most basic element of what I do and I still enjoy it very much.

I used to listen to the soap operas with my grandmother.

If blue collar jobs are leaving and white collar jobs are outsourced what color collar jobs are left?

One trouble with being efficient is that it makes everybody hate you so.

Meanwhile, the meek are a long time inheriting the earth.

When Solomon said there was a time and a place for everything he had not encountered the problem of parking his automobile.

I'm a very straight-laced, conservative news kind of guy.

I go home by noon, and I'm in bed by 6 p.m. I get up at 1 and do it again.

When kids come on the dance floor it’s time for elders to go to the bed.

Sometimes all it takes is one person to speak their truth. Speak yours.

I'm lucky in that I have close friends and family and my agent to advise me.

Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.

I don't want people confusing what it is that I'm about. I just stand there and sing. And I don't do stunts or anything. if I wanted to do all that, I don't think I'd get away with it.

Looking out for your children is an ongoing process throughout your life.

Divorce is the psychological equivalent of a triple coronary bypass.

If there are only you and the music in the room, it means that there are two persons in the room! Music is a live being!

The pictures have a reality for me that the people don't. It is through the photographs that I know them.

Worship renews the spirit as sleep renews the body.