Don't go backwards - you've already been there.

Music to me is like breathing. I don't get tired of breathing, I don't get tired of music.

Just because you can't see anything , doesn't mean you should shut your eyes.

What is a soul? It's like electricity - we don't really know what it is, but it's a force that can light a room.

Love is a special word, and I use it only when I mean it. You say the word too much and it becomes cheap.

Affluence separates people. Poverty knits 'em together. You got some sugar and I don't; I borrow some of yours. Next month you might not have any flour; well, I'll give you some of mine.

Learning to read music in Braille and play by ear helped me develop a damn good memory.

There are many spokes on the wheel of life. First, we're here to explore new possibilities.

Live each day like it's your last, 'cause one day you gonna be right

There's nothing written in the Bible, Old or New testament, that says, 'If you believe in Me, you ain't going to have no troubles.'

Dreams, if they're any good, are always a little bit crazy.

I was going to be a memory when I grew up.

Your only vice is yourself. The worst of all. The really incurable one.

What else is life from the time you were born but a struggle to matter, at least to someone?

Everyone to me has to pick a subject to talk about in music if you're going to be a writer.

You get yourself up for it somehow, and your endurance and the crowd gets you up, too.

To be a writer you should read, write and talk to people, hear their knowledge, hear their problems. Be a good listener. The rest will come.

And do not be paralyzed. It is better to move than to be unable to move, because you fear loss so much: loss of order, loss of security, loss of predictability.

To barter and lose is better than not to go forth.

Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.

I can reach the mass audience if I come from different perspectives on every song.