Don't threaten me with love, baby. Let's just go walking in the rain.

If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling. No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.

Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what's more than enough.

The difficult I'll do right now. The impossible will take a little while.

You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation.

I don't think I'm singing. I feel like I'm playing a horn...What comes out is what I feel.

I never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working when I was six years old.

Dope never helped anybody sing better or play music better or do anything better. All dope can do for you is kill you - and kill you the long, slow, hard way.

I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession. If you can, then it ain't music, it's close order drill, or exercise or yodeling or something, not music.

People don't understand the kind of fight it takes to record what you want to record the way you want to record it.

I never hurt nobody but myself and that's nobody's business but my own.

God is in control. He may not take away trials or make detours for us, but He strengthens us through them.

The belief that rational and quantifiable disciplines such as science can be used to perfect human society is no less absurd than a belief in magic, angels, and divine intervention.

His heart was as great as the world but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.

Keep asking yourself, 'What kind of a company would my company be if everyone in it was just like me?'

If a man just stops to think what he has to praise God for, he will find there is enough to keep him singing praises for a week.

I like to do the splits onstage

I really feel like I haven't had a job. Playing [baseball] and then doing television. I watched my mom clean houses and stuff, so that's work.

I hate not knowing what to believe anymore. I hate not knowing what's real.

The ability to fight isnt a one-size fits all; everybody is different.

Being outspoken has always gotten me into trouble. I'm just this little thing and then all of a sudden it comes out.