My purpose: to lift your spirit and to motivate you.

If I wasn't my age, I would turn a flip. I would do some cartwheels. That's how I feel.

I'm singing these songs to inspire you, to keep you going, to lift you up and give you a reason to get up in the morning

There's still injustice happening in my world. I sing my songs at concerts and I'm so grateful that the people are ready to hear them.

I won't wear rings and jewelry on the stage because I don't want you looking at my hands. I want you hearing what I'm saying.

I have to pinch myself sometimes. It's unbelievable, but it's not. Because I know that this would not be happening if it hadn't been for Dr. Martin Luther King.

Well Lord, I'm still on the case. I'm still doing what Dr. King and Pops want me to do. I'm still on that freedom highway, and I'm going to walk on it until Dr. King's dream is realized.

I never sang for a Grammy, for money, for fame. That's my whole purpose for singing: for people, for the fans.

We stay strong. We stay positive, keep our heads up, love one another, spread love. The Devil can't win when you have God on your side.

There is a great feeling in a small venue, with the closeness of the people and the intimacy.

Music is such a joy, just an absolute joy.

Your greatest awakening comes, when you are aware about your infinite nature.

We are made of spirit, mind, soul, and a little pixie dust.

Fantasy - the ability to envisage the world in many different ways - is one of the skills that makes us human.

Make goals, dream big, live with passion.

Wearing all that weight of learning like a flower.

Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.

If the heart has its reasons, perhaps the body Has its own lumbering sort of carnal spirit, Felt in the tingling bruises of collision, And known to captains as esprit de corps.

Abnormally good or abnormally bad conditions do not last forever.

I've been burn when it comes to my hair that it ain't no joke.

The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.