I just want to be able to get onstage and move and move around.

Singing is my life. And when I can do that, that's when I'm free. That's when I'm at my happiest, I'm at my most.

I'm not going to sing something if it doesn't make sense to me, or if it makes me look like I'm begging someone or I'm weak, because that's not me.

I'm singing, you know, because I'm happy and I'm free.

Some people can sit down and write a song, but they can't go on stage like I can.

Play with me and you play with fire.

I'm going to keep on keeping on as long as I've got my health and strength, and God gives me that will to do it.

God's eye is on a sparrow. And I know - oh, yes, I know he watches over me...

Music is my happiness, my joy, and when my body wasn't right I couldn't get into my music without being healed, without being healthy.

When I'm on tour, I don't see these spots as much as I'd like. I'm just in, I perform, then I'm out. I hope to spend years sightseeing, then more years after that.

I miss my hair, but I feel like going out there with some fake braids wouldn't be right. I want to be the most genuine performer I can be.

Something warned me that what I might see would haunt me forever.

You have everything when you embrace the full circle of life.

What does so-called success or failure matter if only you have succeeded in doing the thing you set out to do. The doing is all that really counts.

It is our duty and our privilege to exhaust our lives for Jesus. We are not to be living specimens of men in fine preservation, but living sacrifices, whose lot is to be consumed

For every house is incomplete without him, and a blessing is lacking in the spirit.

Suicide is the worst form of murder, because it leaves no opportunity for repentance.

He who loves a dictator is much more dangerous than the dictator himself.

I don't know a soul who doesn't maintain two separate lists of doctrines the ones that they believe that they believe; and the ones that they actually try to live by.

Maybe I just stay in relationships for too long and then they get really dramatic.

The ultimate promise of technology is to make us master of a world that we command by the push of a button.