If I decide to be an idiot, then I'll be an idiot on my own accord.

Without my morning coffee I'm just like a dried up piece of roast goat.

The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.

I worked hard. Anyone who works as hard as I did can achieve the same results.

Ceaseless work, analysis, reflection, writing much, endless self-correction, that is my secret.

It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself.

It is the special province of music to move the heart.

I play the notes as they are written, but it is God who makes the music.

Old concept: Love is blind. Marriage is an eye opener. New concept: Love is not blind - it simply enables one to see things others fail to see.

Where there is devotional music, God is always at hand with His gracious presence.

Music's only purpose should be for the glory of God and the recreation of the human spirit.

A lot of times on tour it's about, 'OK, where am I today? Wow, I'm in Costa Rica. What is their famous dish?' And it's about trying the food, and really experiencing it.

I would love to do a duet with Tim McGraw. I think that would be fun.

There's nothing like space and the ability to make unlimited amounts of noise at any time, especially in San Francisco.

Well, Jon Hamm isn't a real celebrity.

I think that one of the tasks of feminist women - mainly women of culture - in our time is to seek out those women who were only forgotten because they were women.

Racism is a global problem and it is as damaging to Whites as it is to non-Whites. Everyone must fight against it.

Don't listen to anybody who's trying to bring you down. There's so much negativity in the world. If you really want something, then you go for it.

The whole exploitation thing is funny, too. Exploitation is the nature of the world, isn't it?

But presidents matter. That's one of the biggest lessons I learned being in the White House.

Cigars served me for precisely fifty years as protection and a weapon in the combat of life... I owe to the cigar a great intensification of my capacity to work and a facilitation of my self-control.