I love the Holy Spirit. I can't stand to see it being disrespected. It's been there for me at times when I really needed it. Therefore, I have a duty to stand for it is how I feel.

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.

i thank the universe for takingeverything it has takenand giving to meeverything it is giving-balance

You say be honest, but honestly you don't want honesty

The space shuttle is a better and safer rocket than it was before the Challenger accident.

I love Velveeta cheese.

Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as in knowing what to do next.

There is great unanimity among the dissolute. [Lat., Magna inter molles concordia.]

The fundamental axiom, then, for the study of man is the existence of individual consciousness

Hayek is amongst the top 2-3 of the all the people who ever influenced me.

Whatever came to mind, whatever came to hand, I would read.

Very few established institutions, governments and constitutions ...are ever destroyed by their enemies until they have been corrupted and weakened by their friends.