I can only sing songs my way. I don't know any other way.

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.

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

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.

When you practice leadership, The evidence of quality of your leadership, Is known from the type of leaders that emerge out of your leadership

His older self had taught his younger self a language which the older self knew because the younger self, after being taught, grew up to be the older self and was, therefore, capable of teaching.

Self-worth and net worth are not the same.

It's about children cooking themselves, growing themselves. When kids grow it and cook it they eat it.

Looking back we see with great clarity, and what once appeared as difficulties now reveal themselves as blessings.

Cinema is a medium that can translate ideas.

While I love working on dramatic characters and stories, it's comedy that I love the most. For me, it's incredibly rewarding to make a person laugh. Laughter is one of the greatest parts of life.

Every happening is a lesson, a message.

Just lock myself in a room, stop answering emails, stop answering the phone and I come out with something.

The people who are good at being civil often lack strong convictions and people who have strong convictions often lack civility.