People think I'm crazy because I travel too much, but I haven't been doing any of that lately because I got a little sick this year and I've tried to take care of it.

Nobody heard records of you playing whatever the melody was on those low strings. It worked out good, you know, about 25 or 26 million records later. I guess it worked out alright.

There's nothing worse, I guess, than being black in an all-white church or being southern and being a liberal.

Sweden was very nice. I did a lot of television. I wrote, directed and was in a lot of television there.

Oh no, I'm not a historian or anything like that.

So I became a producer because I knew one of the reasons was they didn't do them the way I thought was right.

So anyway, I really enjoyed the European audiences.

I just did one movie and there was no career for me, anyway.

Eventually nothing will matter, this page, where you are sitting, your degree, your job, your money except love and human connection.

Do you want to lead, or do you want to be liked?

I'm glad that young black people are successful with the music. I'm not a hater.

Einstein said, if everything exists as a substance of qualities, and qualities exist only in mind, then all is mind

Whatever distrust we may have of the sincerity of those who converse with us, we always believe they will tell us more truth than they do to others.

Pressure just makes you go a little more. I kind of like pressure.

It's quite hard for people to just accept that they're very contradictory.

Consider yourself lucky for having met him, for he's the kind of man who'll prove you right.

Progression is going forwards. Going backwards is regression. Going sideways is just gression.

I don't think I'll ever be able to stay in one place for more than a year or two. It's not in my nature.