Only one music comes out of me.

I always tried so hard to fit in, and then I figured out that I didn't want to fit.

I love opera, I love writing for the voice, I love telling stories with music.

The struggle for justice doesn't end with me. This struggle is for all the Troy Davises who came before me and all the ones who will come after me.

Hearing is believing...a magician with the piano.

May God have mercy on your souls. May God bless your souls.

You have your own perceptions as an artist because you're put on this planet to create mystery, but you're put here to unravel mysteries too.

Time and rhythm are the most important elements in music. If both aren't well conceived, organized, and executed, no amount of notes will make the piece a meaningful artistic experience.

Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing.

Travel brings wisdom only to the wise. It renders the ignorant more ignorant than ever.

It's always wrong of course to say that you can't do this or you can't do that in fiction. You can do anything you can get away with, but nobody has ever gotten away with much.

I have always wanted to be somebody but I see now I should have been more specific.

None love to speak so much when the mood of speaking comes as they who are naturally taciturn.

When I wrote the song, The Way It Is, I wanted to move people to take a stand on civil rights in this country.

Memory, when duly impregnated with ascertained facts, is sometimes surprisingly fertile.

I got caught up in the proletariat the way Marx describes it.

There is faith in every serious doubt, namely, the faith in the truth as such, even if the only truth we can express is our lack of truth.

Its been nearly 1.5 years since the last PLUS 8 record, but it seemed fitting that this record in particular, made by a skinny white kid from Canada, became part of the labels collection and history.