Nobody gets between me and my microphone.

I don't do anything in order to cause trouble. It just so happens that what I do naturally causes trouble. I'm proud to be a troublemaker.

Women are to be valued for so much more than their sexuality. We aren’t merely objects of desire.

I understand that we are actually complicated people but we are also dreadfully simple.

I don't believe in any kind of artistic snobbery or musical snobbery. You know, to me, the sexiest and the most spiritual words ever uttered in rock and roll are wop babaloo balop bam boom.

Maybe it was mean, but I really don't think so. You asked for the truth and I told you.

When you dishonor the the utter glory and majesty of black people, you lie. Your heart lies to you and you let it

I grew up in a situation of extreme abuse, but there was no chance to talk about it, so music became the escape if you like.

At some point the entire population of the earth is gonna have to look back at the kind of essence of spirituality which is basically caring about each other.

We have a tradition of passing our history orally and singing a lot of it and writing songs about it and there's kind of a calling in Irish voices when they're singing in their Irish accent.

When I kissed you, you didn't mind. I thought I tasted of too many cigarettes, but you tasted like wine.

If something happened to Gillian, I'd rip the world down to save her, even if she spat in my face when I did. That's what parenthood means.

As long as you leave to others the responsibility to make you happy, you will always be miserable, because that is actually your job

ZIGZAG, v.t. To move forward uncertainly, from side to side, as one carrying the white man's burden.

I'm quite lucky, because I've got a small, decorative concrete pig.

My goodness, my hair's been talked about by a million people, you know? It sort of goes with the territory.

Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches.

If all women on earth woke up tomorrow feeling truly positive and powerful in their own bodies, the economies of the globe would collapse overnight.

Miscommunication leads to complication.

RB Morris is the greatest unknown singer-songwrit er in the US.

I don't think anybody thinks about their past much, unless they're in a mental institution.