Everybody wants to know about my style and how it came about. It's no big secret. It's the way I feel.

Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

Blue skies Smiling at me Nothing but blue skies Do I see

It isn't where you came from, its where you're going that counts.

Music is the universal language ... it brings people closer together.

The only thing better than singing is more singing.

What everyone wants more than anything else is to be loved.

I don't want to say the wrong thing, which I always do. I think I do better when I sing.

Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do.

I'm very shy, and I shy away from people. But the moment I hit the stage, it's a different feeling I get nerve from somewhere; maybe it's because it's something I love to do.

You take romance - I'll take Jell-O.

You need to keep hurting until you realise you never needed to hurt in the first place.

Lucidity was a slippery thing and her hands were wet.

The way to kill a man or a nation is to cut off his dreams, the way the whites are taking care of the Indians: killing their dreams, their magic, their familiar spirits.

I always go by instinct and then wrestle with where by instinct brought me.

We need to continue to strive to tell these different stories.”

He who performs his duty in a station of great power must needs incur the utter enmity of many, and the high displeasure of more.

We are not the worst moments of our lives. Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking.

Trust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow's falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest With some new Joys, cuts off what we possest.

I'm not politically correct.

The only time anyone has ever gotten into serious trouble was when he decided he could do nothing about something.