I'm just singing for the women who think they can't speak out. Can't a man alive mistreat me, 'cause I know who I am.

I'm having a good time, Please don't blame me, I'm knocking myself out Don't try to tame me Let me have my fun, I've got to have my fling, Some folks say I'm blowing my top Talk don't mean a thing.

The musicians that didn't know music could play the best blues. I know that I don't want no musicians who know all about music playin' for me.

Maybe if I knew music, I couldn't do what I am doing.

Blues means what milk does to a baby. Blues is what the spirit is to the minister. We sing the blues because our hearts have been hurt, our souls have been disturbed.

I’ve been more places by accident than most people have been on purpose.

People think the blues is sad. They hear people moaning and such. That's not the blues. That's just somebody singing slow...The blues is about truth-telling.

Put your faith in God and confidence in yourself.

I am not interested in whether you've stood with the great

Your dirty past somehow puts GOD's grace on blast

I’ve already found the right person. I’m just waiting for her to be ready.

But people had forgotten there was a day in the not too distant past when they’d not seen or heard of bombings, and suicide vests, and snipers. Alicia, though, had not forgotten.

I will live in thy heart, die in thy lap, and be buried in thyeyes—and moreover, I will go with thee to thy uncle’s.

The mystery of ministry is that we have been chosen to make our own limited and very conditional love the gateway for the unlimited and unconditional love of God.

But I'd rather not predict. I'd rather affect.

I had a terrible manager once who described my career as 'spiraling downward.

You can’t have a plan for your day, ‘til you have a plan for your life.

I believe it is no secret that I like Japan very much - Japanese culture, sport, including judo, but it will not offend anyone if I say that I like Russia even more.