I'm coming back to give the people what they want.

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.

It simply isn't an adventure worth telling if there aren't any dragons.

We reveal most about ourselves when we speak about others.

There is nothing in nature which approximates to the idea of a hospice.

One can find women who have never had a love affair but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.

Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees. And both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.

We seldom stop to think that we are still creatures of the sea, able to leave it only because, from birth to death, we wear the water-filled space suits of our skins.

Kerry asks Americans to look at the evidence. Bush asks people to believe.

It's important to push yourself further than you think you can go each and every day - as that is what separates the good from the great.

Retire into thyself. The rational principle which rules has this nature, that it is content with itself when it does what is just, and so secures tranquility.

I'd swap everything I've done in my miserable little life to bat like Virender Sehwag