I try to project not only a song but a personality.

Retire? Not on your life. I have no plans to stop singing. What are you going to do when you love music? It's a terrible disease. You can't stop. Of course, I'd like to get off the road.

What are you going to do when you love music? You can't stop.

You should always look like a star. Otherwise people will lose a little of the esteem they have for you.

I learned courage from Buddha, Jesus, Lincoln, Einstein, and Mr. Cary Grant.

If that's all there is, my friends, then let's keep dancing.

I regard singing pretty much like acting. Each song is like playing a different role. I get very involved with my material. I feel a responsibility for the emotion it brings out in the listener.

One day he went away and I thought I'd die, but I didn't. And I said to myself: 'is that all there is to love?'

Is That All There Is?

They weren't really weddings, just long costume parties. (on three of her weddings)

I really don't have that many run-ins. People by and large are very nice to me.

There are springs in the mind from which others cannot drink.

God is able to really use a person, who puts all that he has got into his work, who works hard, sweating his guts out to the point of complete exhaustion, using the last of his strength

The world is better because of Coretta Scott King. She affected countless lives and her voice will be deeply missed, especially by those who carry on her incredible undertaking.

Kant attempted to work out a view of religion and religious belief according to which existing religions could be brought into harmony with modernity, science and reason.

There's going to be a flood of opportunities right now but I don't think I could really talk about them.

You say that money isn't everything, well I'd like to see you live without it.

I think, back in the day, when I was first starting to make music, all I wanted to do was to get a record deal.

Each achieves one or both of two objectives — making liberals feel good about themselves and being good to liberal candidates.

It is hard to contend against one's heart's desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul.

Whoever prefers Allah to all others, Allah will prefer him to others.