I always loved Sam Cooke, because he seemed very versatile. He sang gospel, soul, blues, pop music

I don't know much, but I know I love you... that may be all there is to know.

I was raised Catholic, but my father's people were Methodist, so we went to both churches.

Until I went to rehab, I didn't understand what it did.

Every morning I wake up and thank God.

It's a 360-degree sound experience. Like you're in the middle of the band. A lot of people have the technology to play the format, so why not put it out there. It sounds great.

I really like listening to music in my car.

I was very surprised when I heard that I had been chosen to receive the James Cardinal Gibbons Award.

The extras are a nice bonus feature, but the main incentive is the musical experience.

So now I have a collection of poetry by Aaron Neville and I give it to people I want to share it with. I'd like to publish it someday.

I owe it all to Jesus.

Another note to self

I saw myself dancing alone, always alone,

I don't ever have time for friends or anything like that.

We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.

[To Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, on his return from self-imposed exile, occasioned by the embarrassing flatulence he had experienced in the presence of the Queen:] My Lord, I had forgot the fart.

The movies that I do are in love with cinema, and I try to show that I am in love with cinema. I want them to be, in other ways, drinking from other sources.

Terrence, the Roman slave who freed himself with his writings, once observed, "I am a human being. Nothing human is alien to me." That could be the motto of literature!

[Barack Obama to be] much worse [than George W. Bush].

Love is verily the heart of all religions.

You have to let people find out who they are as actors and pull their strengths out based upon what they can actually do best.