I guess I'm a Holy Spirit maniac. I'm not a religious maniac. I love religion, but I don't like it.

I don't do anything in order to cause trouble. It just so happens that what I do naturally causes trouble. I'm proud to be a troublemaker.

Women are to be valued for so much more than their sexuality. We aren’t merely objects of desire.

I understand that we are actually complicated people but we are also dreadfully simple.

I don't believe in any kind of artistic snobbery or musical snobbery. You know, to me, the sexiest and the most spiritual words ever uttered in rock and roll are wop babaloo balop bam boom.

Maybe it was mean, but I really don't think so. You asked for the truth and I told you.

When you dishonor the the utter glory and majesty of black people, you lie. Your heart lies to you and you let it

I grew up in a situation of extreme abuse, but there was no chance to talk about it, so music became the escape if you like.

At some point the entire population of the earth is gonna have to look back at the kind of essence of spirituality which is basically caring about each other.

We have a tradition of passing our history orally and singing a lot of it and writing songs about it and there's kind of a calling in Irish voices when they're singing in their Irish accent.

When I kissed you, you didn't mind. I thought I tasted of too many cigarettes, but you tasted like wine.

Has it ever occurred to you that business as you think of it may have outlived its usefulness? Business has made its contribution and the world moves on. Business is just another dodo. . . .

If we'd done this my way, ' Garrett went on, 'We'd have been here much earlier.''And drunk, most likely, ' said Maiev.'You say "drunk, " I say "happy", ' Garrett shrugged.

A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change not destruction which takes place.

You best teach others about healthy boundaries by enforcing yours.

A cold and moist brain is an inseparable companion to folly.

In writing, you discover interior sonorities in words. Dipthongs sound differently beneath the pen. One hears them with their sounds divorced.

Robert Fischer is a law unto himself

We can either walk the highroad of brotherhood or the low road of man's inhumanity to man.

Prepare for mirth, for mirth becomes a feast.