If I don't have friends, then I ain't nothing.

If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling. No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.

Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what's more than enough.

The difficult I'll do right now. The impossible will take a little while.

You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation.

I don't think I'm singing. I feel like I'm playing a horn...What comes out is what I feel.

Don't threaten me with love, baby. Let's just go walking in the rain.

I never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working when I was six years old.

Dope never helped anybody sing better or play music better or do anything better. All dope can do for you is kill you - and kill you the long, slow, hard way.

I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession. If you can, then it ain't music, it's close order drill, or exercise or yodeling or something, not music.

People don't understand the kind of fight it takes to record what you want to record the way you want to record it.

We shall never achieve harmony with the land, anymore than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations the important thing is not to achieve but to strive.

Don't cheat the foundation of a house because you want to save for the roofing for at the end, you will have only roofed rubbles.

Success is like a seed, it waits for the right conditions that will allow it to grow.

...the kind of love that picks you up in Akron and sets you down in Rio...

It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.

Photography has escalated almost exponentially! It is a language which covers almost every aspect of communication; factual and expressive.

Christian, beware of thinking lightly of sin. Take heed in case you fall little by little.

Telling the truth is the slow, mundane, difficult route to a meaningful life. Anything else is cheating.

I think in any country you have macro situations and micro ones.

A lot of girls walk this earth telling people they've slept with me. And a lot of them did. But I don't remember 95 percent of them.