I had given up the church, more because of its complicity with slavery than from a full understanding of the foolishness of its creeds.

I think poetry without metaphor is like husband and wife living in separate bedrooms.

The price of liberty is labor as well as vigilance.

Have you considered that some of your greatest heartaches and hardships might actually be the best things that ever happened to you in the long run?

I know God is in charge. Not me, I'm nothing. I wouldn't be anything except for the power of the spirit of God.

It’s important to me that people hear my music on its own merit and not in relation to another project I’ve done. Ultimately, the music has its own energy and message and stands on its own.

No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.

The Beatles gave me everything. Especially Paul McCartney. I adore him.

Sport is not my thing.

The great thing about playing a character that's similar to the audience, or similar to you, is that you get to have the same reaction that you would actually have to whatever's going on.

I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love, If you want me again look for me under your bootsoles.