I didn't know I was really alive in this world until I felt things hard enough to kill for 'em...

Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.

You can't make me do nothing but die!

The white folks like for us to be religious, then they can do what they want to with us.

You will never get what you want in this world

Daytime soap operas, which I used to adore, have been declining in quality and importance for over a decade, and I gradually stopped monitoring them.

The artist is something of an outsider in America. I have always felt that America does not value its artists, certainly not in the sense that the Europeans do.

Worries carry responsibilitie s that belong to God, not to you. Worry does not enable us to escape evil; it makes us unfit to cope with it when it comes.

With my music, I can express myself so much. A lot of the fans can sense that I'm relating to them something that's quite personal.

It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.

If you let other people do it for you, they will do it to you.

Minister: Welcome, brother! Do you reject Satan and all his works? Bunny Breckinridge: Sure.

Аs long as I've got an audience out there to play for, I'm going to continue to play. I have at least enough people that I can go out on the road for 10, 11 weeks at a time.

[T]he atoms or elementary particles themselves are not real; they form a world of potentialities or possibilities rather than one of things or facts.