I visit studios. Just to get the feel, the smell, and see what other people are doing. Not only listening to the radio, but going to studios, greeting musicians and artists, just getting a vibe.

People in the Hall of Fame tend to clap their hands and say, 'OK, I've done it all,' but for me, it was a new beginning.

Got your mind set on a dream, you can get it though how hard it may seem.

Good thinking brings good feeling and good feeling brings good thinking.

Rome was not built in a day Opposition will come your way But the harder the battle you see It's the sweeter the victory

I'd rather be a free man in my grave than living as a puppet or a slave.

I love to create and that's what gives my soul the satisfaction.

And I keep on fighting for the things I want. Though I know that when you're dead you can't. But I'd rather be a free man in my grave, than living as a puppet or a slave.

In the country, people are kind. In the city, people are hard an' cold, like the concrete and steel.

I've done a lot of things to become what I've become, out to create and establish a musical form and I call it movie.

Social justice has always been a part of my inspiration. For example, when the Vietnam War was going on, I wrote a song about that.

Life is about experience... You can't hold on to everything

Shroud of dust now covers the beautiful earth, wonder when we respire in the fresh air of verdure.

Leadership - leadership is about taking responsibility, not making excuses.

God bless the Methodist Church - bless all the churches - and blessed be God, Who, in this our great trial, giveth us the churches.

The minute viewers callin or write about your looks, they were not listening to what you were saying.

The sun doesn't determine the brightness of the day, you do.

Little girls, I am in the business of putting old heads on young shoulders, and all my pupils are the crème de la crème. Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life.

Because of the Saviors Atonement, repentance is a beautiful word and a marvelous refuge.

I don't mind your thinking slowly; I mind your publishing faster than you think.

There is a luxury in self-dispraise; And inward self-disparagement affords To meditative spleen a grateful feast.