I'm a child of the '60s, so I love the fact that we are returning to a time when artists are standing up.

These are not necessarily our agendas, but we feel a part of what a performer is, and what a performer has to say is more than just words and music.

There's a real rebirth in the artistic community to stand up for what you believe in.

Very few people say no to the ­Grammys.

The problem with setting goals is that they can be limiting.  Perhaps we're asking for something good when God's will is that we be given something great.

You think slavery is right and ought to be extended; while we think it is wrong and ought to be restricted. That I suppose is the rub. It certainly is the only substantial difference between us.

I'm a bluesman, which means that I put an emphasis on the minor keys.

I need some air. I'm still feeling a tad... dead.

Learn from your mistakes, trying to figure out what the best way to go forward is.

I'm not really part of any group or clique or gang because that's always been my nature.

I go on the Internet and look at old pictures of myself, because it is the best reminder of how far I have come and where I do not want to be.

If they could cut off my head and put it onto another body that was, like, 20 years old, I would do that.

One might say that science itself, and civilization and art, are all about different orderings of the world - to contain it, and to make it in some sense intelligible, communicable. And bearable.

The Lord doesn't give a person more than he knows they can bear.