I have been a provoker and I'll probably always be one in the public arena for the rest of my life.

It's like soul music, isn't it all soul music? Otherwise what is it, non-soul music? I-have-no-soul music? Soulless music? People need to put a name on something to identify it, and I understand it.

I really love that type of music where someone can take a guitar or light instrumentation and a beautiful voice and can send me somewhere.

The pleasure of other people is a byproduct of the pleasure that comes from yourself so I cannot judge or look down on someone who does whatever they feel like doing.

Anything lower than mid-six figures is not going to get me interested in that. And honestly, I just don't want to.

If tears were liquor/ I'd have drunk myself sick.

I've never presented myself as anything less than a flawed person.

When you get a chance to play with people - informally is one thing, but when you hook up and make something that's going to last or mean something to someone, I take it very seriously.

I'm a very private person. What I did in the past or what somebody heard me do or has a bootleg of me doing...well, if you have a bootleg, then I did it.

I think you can find yourself in life perhaps not really being the master of your own life and it is within your own will and tenacity whether you switch the roles or not.

You make music to move people and you don't get to pick who you move. You just don't. It's exclusionary and elitist and I just never felt that way about music, of all things. The great unifier.

We have all had stupid youths, ' said Mathilde. 'I find them delicious.

There is a madness in me that does not follow society.

The unfortunate part is there's not enough balance in the legislative chambers, and particularly the senate that has to do that confirmation for there to be enough pushback.

Church and State, Soul and Body, God and Man, are all one at Mont Saint Michel, and the business of all is to fight, each in his own way, or to stand guard for each other.

How endless is that volume which God hath written of the world! Every creature is a letter, every day a new page.

You want to be upper class, you want to be first class, but when the plane crash, everybody dead.

Marygreen did not change in sixteen years. It had changed little enough in the past two years.

No matter the situation, I stay focused and motivated on my goals because that's the way I was raised.

The ability of Americans to toss off oppressive characters is the most rewarding aspect, to me, of U.S. history.

There has to be room for people to make mistakes and lead their own lives.