Imitate the sun. Don't worry if people understand you. Just shine shine shine.

The moments when I first made something, like when I first wrote a song please me so intensely. Everything else after that is just the act of communication.

I watch a lot of TV and I got some new hair products.

I've tried to make music that's more universal, but for me, it's most successful emotionally when it's most specific to what I'm going through.

In the silence, hear what can't be heard.

There's a great expression that says, "God is a jealous lover," and it's a very accurate expression that has nothing to do with whatever you see god or nature as.

As a musician or a performer, you're meant to know what you're about, but it's ridiculous that someone 14 would have any idea of what they're about.

The best way to avoid responsibility is to say, 'I've gotresponsibilities.

Money can't buy love, but money can reprove one's care, especially when there is little to give in its efforts to help.

Being grounded in your lifelong culture and your personal perspective, you are comfortable with the way you see things and may believe it is the best and only way.

The last Christmas movie I really liked was 'It's a Wonderful Life, ' probably. It's sort of a schmaltzy movie, but it's not without its dark moments. It still gets to me every year.

I donate heavily to the church and various churches in the Detroit community and food banks.

A vision is not something we make up, it's something we are MADE OF.

They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience.

Associate with well-mannered persons and your manners will improve. Run around with decent folk and your own decent instincts will be strengthened.

In the sermon I have just preached, whenever I said Aristotle, I meant St. Paul.

Never before have self-suffiency and education been so important, and they are virtually inseparable from survival.