My family lives a pretty normal life.

There's two times of year for me: Football season, and waiting for football season.

You gotta laugh and love and take all life has to give. You gotta live and learn so you can learn to live.

When I was growing up, I always knew that if I ever got anything, I was going to give back as much as I can. I learned that all you have to be willing to do is give your time.

You gotta love and learn and learn to live.

I think people who go out and tell you how much they're gonna change things are the people who end up being just another whatever. I'm never trying to change anything. That's not for me.

It was important to me to find a label that wouldn't back out after a first single. Everyone's so used to hearing me with Hootie, they're going to be skeptical.

We went to church every Sunday. When I was a kid, the only time I sang was around my family.

I don't think I get the respect as a singer. With this record, I wanted to bring respect to my band.

I'm a kid who grew up in an all African-American neighborhood and got into schools and aspired to just be me, and didn't worry about labels or anything. Just wanted to be a success at what I did.

Find something that makes you want to give and give and give 'til it hurts.

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.

The joke that you laid in the bed that was me.

Use plants to bring life

Inspiration is an awakening, a quickening of all man's faculties, and it is manifested in all high artistic achievements.

A strategy would be how do we mobilize support for the remnants of the Syrian Free Army, and it might require combat troops to inspire an international effort.

People have a problem with me being different, but that propels me forward in life.

What needs to be grasped is that the system itself is the cause of all of the misery in the world. This is a simple but powerful idea.

... all that that I learn just teaches me that I know nothing.

You can write a book on how to ruin someone’s perfect day.