I don't know what I'm going to write when I begin to write. It feels like you are walking down a path, but you can't see around the bend and you don't know where you are going to go, which is fun.

I was eating in a Chinese restaurant downtown. There was a dish called Mother and Child Reunion. It's chicken and eggs. And I said, I gotta use that one.

The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence.

Improvisation is too good to leave to chance.

If you can get humor and seriousness at the same time, you've created a special little thing, and that's what I'm looking for, because if you get pompous, you lose everything.

Sail on silver girl Sail on by Your time has come to shine All your dreams are on their way See how they shine Oh, if you need a friend I'm sailing right behind.

I don't feel any pressure from fans. But I'm always in some kind of state of emotional turmoil. I would not describe myself as happy-go-lucky. That's not to say that I'm not happy.

Believing I had supernatural powers, I slammed into a brick wall.

I've got nothing to do today but smile.

Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.

Someone told me it's all happening at the zoo.

Do you remember? Do you remember the world before the poison?

Jesus demonstrated the importance of prayer by His own example. His whole ministry was saturated with prayer.

Friends are better than a lot of wealth.

Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.

I'm very, very lazy. I love to sit in a chair and look out the window and do nothing.

I know that I am a black man in a white world. . . I know that I never had it made.

Literature is as old as speech. It grew out of a human need for it, and it has not changed except to become more needed

Works without faith are like a fish without water, it wants the element it should live in. A building without a basis cannot stand; faith is the foundation, and every good action is as a stone laid.

Music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.

Why make dirty what is beautiful, spoil what is perfect? Love.