I really enjoy myself in Norway. Because I had started losing confidence in my ability of what I do. But sometimes, man, you just get tired of fighting and trying to prove yourself.

I miss riding those fast trains in Japan... 'cause I'd never seen a train that fast in my life.

Stay in school, stay off drugs, don't make the same mistakes I did, respect yourself, and others will follow.

Rock'n'roll is nothing but Boogie Woogie with stuff on top of it. And if you're black, they name it rhythm'n'blues, and if you're white, they name it rock'n'roll. So, I don't give a... You know.

I'm really thankful to God, man. Like now, I'm really making a real comeback with my group. With or without a record, with or without a movie. And behind all the negative press behind this movie.

Either accept people for what they are, or don't. So, in other words, man, if people don't know me, I think they do themself an injustice. Because, as a whole, I think I'm a good person.

I'm not gonna try to defend, or undo what's been done. All I could say about whatever's been done, it's been done, and it's water under the bridge. I have no regrets of my life.

In those days, man, in the '50s, black people in the South... We didn't recognize contracts that much. And we didn't recognize marriages that much, either.

I'm very fast on teaching guys. Like, when I came over here, I only had two rehearsals with the band. I wondered when I first got here... but it sure came up great.

They would come down in Mississippi, they hired me as a talent scout. And I would go all over Mississippi, Alabama, Texas, and find out different artists for them.

In China, when you get to the airport everyone be talking in American slang.

If you believe that you are not omnipresent, omniscient, and ultimately omnipotent, then you are deluded.

Hope is strong faith.

There is one last thing to remember: writers are always selling somebody out.

Like a garden that is carefully tended, the rewards are well worth the effort.

Any man who knocks on the door of a brothel is looking for God.

Would you put a pastrami in your mouth if you didn't want to eat it?

We need a much broader conversation on what the morality of pro-life is

At all crucial moments in our lives we want to speak without knowing what to say.

Helplessness is your best prayer. It calls from your heart to the heart of God with greater effect than all your uttered pleas.

I didn't want to overstate anything, but at the same time, the scene expands on some of the themes in the film [ "Aquarius"].