Long as I was riding in a big Cadillac and dressed nice and had plenty of food, that's all I cared about.

My mother always told me, even if a song has been done a thousand times, you can still bring something of your own to it. I'd like to think I did that.

The two things you can't fake are good food and good music

All the things I used to like - cookies, ice cream, gumbo - I don't like anymore.

What happens is, when I perform, I'm somewhere else. I go back in time and get in touch with who I really am. I forget my troubles, my worries.

At last my love has come along. My lonely days are over and life is like a song.

I wanna show that gospel, country, blues, rhythm and blues, jazz, rock 'n' roll are all just really one thing. Those are the American music and that is the American culture.

A lot of people think the blues is depressing but that's not the blues I'm singing. When I'm singing blues, I singing life. People can't stand to listen to the blues, they've got to be phonies.

When I sing for myself, I probably sing for anyone who has any kind of hurt, any kind of bad feelings, good feelings, ups and downs, highs and lows, that kind of thing.

I want a Sunday kind of love A love to last past Saturday night And I’d like to know it’s more than love at first sight

You can't fake this music. You might be a great singer or a great musician but, in the need, that's got nothing to do with it. It's how you connect to the songs and to the history behind them.

I myself not dwells, the only people are dwells in underlying aim of my each work.

When you you see no positive change take care of a negative change.

I want to burn the world because Alan is gone, " he said. "I want to destroy everything I see. But you mean something to me. I will not destroy the world, because it has you in it.

Love is a selfless service to mankind like a showcase done by the twinkling stars in beautiful nightly sky.

Peace has never come from dropping bombs. Real peace comes from enlightenment and educating people to behave more in a divine manner.

A dream is always simmering below the conventional surface of speech and reflection.

Coffee: Induces wit. Good only if it comes through Havre. After a big dinner party it is taken standing up. Take it without sugar - very swank: gives the impression you have lived in the East.

[Gulliver was soon being read] "from the cabinet council to the nursery".

What can you possibly add to a mind that's full, especially one that's full of itself.

Create and stir other people to create.