Gospel songs are the songs of hope. When you sing gospel you have the feeling there is a cure for what's wrong, but when you are through with the blues, you've got nothing to rest on.

Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.

Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say.

When you sing gospel you have a feeling there is a cure for what's wrong.

It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing, that's the Lord's test.

Man has no nobler function than to defend the truth.

God can make you anything you want to be, but you have to put everything in his hands.

Baby, black promoters oppressed me before white promoters ever got hold of me. Don't talk skin to me.

I sing God's music because it makes me feel free. It gives me hope. With the blues, when you finish, you still have the blues.

Without a song, each day would be a century.

Someday the sun is going to shine down on me in some faraway place.

Innocence isn't something we lose, but realise we don't need.

Being a hero means ignoring how silly you feel.

I think his team are mirroring Stuart Pearce as the player he was. (on Manchester City)

When I was at college - that was the first time I tried singing. I played in a band, and people seemed to like it.

It’s a very weird thing being a photographer.

Bring into your mind anyone against whom you have a grievance and let it go. Send that person your forgiveness.

What the semicolon's anxious supporters fret about is the tendency of contemporary writers to use a dash instead of a semicolon and thus precipitate the end of the world. Are they being alarmist?

I have always said that your work stays with you for a long time, and I try to get involved in projects where I truly believe if I had to do them again, I would the same way.

In some respects, South African apartheid was more vicious than Israeli practices, and in some respects the opposite is true.

I don't do like diva trips and stuff.