If you want to be a musician, study your craft. Study music.

You can't sing about love unless you know about it.

I'm not much on gimmicks. I never have been because they don't last.

I'm used to hearing myself. My own voice.

When you're playing music, say for instance, you're playing a part of the band and you're looking at your music, your horn is down into the stand. This way, it's

I don't have perfect pitch, but I have relative pitch. I'm glad I don't have perfect pitch because perfect pitch can drive you crazy.

If you want to be a doctor, a lawyer you must go to college. But if you want to be a musician or such, study your craft. Study music.

I'm a firm believer and I think my religion is inside.

I just went to Harvard a little while, because I graduated from Armstrong High School in Washington and then I went up there but I didn't stay that long because I went into show business.

When Byrd came out of there, he had written a lot things while he was in the hospital.

You know, times change and the elements change along with it. The elements of success. And my son's very successful. He's doing very well. And I have a younger daughter who sings.

I think you can have moderate success by copying something else, but if you really want to knock it out of the park, you have to do something different and take chances.

Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Dispel, v. It was the way you said, “I have something to tell you.” I could feel the magic drain from the room.

Only by the candle, held in the skeleton hand of Poverty, can man read his own dark heart.

My original intention was to spend the money in my lifetime.

If people are constantly reading about you, and you're overexposed, they've got no reason to go see your movies. Also, it's not pleasant or nice to have your privacy invaded.

It takes work to plot a course that is both thrilling and truthful, but it's worth it.

Runnin' this game for five years, guess that's why my feet hurt.

This all-pervading divine power of love is the ocean of knowledge, is the ocean of bliss and compassion, but above all it is the ocean of forgiveness.

Silence is the best answer to a fool.