Put yourself in God’s hands and you can’t go wrong.

God is the color of water. Water doesn't have a color.

I asked her if I was black or white. She replied "You are a human being. Educate yourself or you'll be a nobody!

You have to choose between what the world expects of you and what you want for yourself.

Writing for me is cutting out the fat and getting to the meaning.

First person narrative is a very effective tool but you have to know as a writer how to make it work.

If you have the material it will form itself as a kind of connective tissue.

People don't realize you're blowing over changes, time changes, harmony, different keys. I mark a point in my solo where it's got to peak at point D I go to A, B, C D then I'm home.

I come to the understanding that maybe what was on the inside was more important, and that your outer covering didn't count so much as folks thought it did, colored or white, man or woman.

I put headlights in Ford vans. I still drive a Ford.

It is hard to find romance in the present because there's nothing left to the imagination.

I hate books they teach us only to talk about what we do not know.

Mujer, you own my soul.

The longer you live, the more dreams you should have to keep you occupied.

I'm really lucky to have some super-talented friends.

What the great learning teaches, is to illustrate illustrious virtue; to renovate the people; and to rest in the highest excellence.

... the whole tenour of female education ... tends to render the best disposed romantic and inconstant; and the remainder vain and mean.

As a kid, I got three meals a day. Oatmeal, miss-a-meal and no meal.

Better lose me than lose a state.

Make it, not make it? What's the difference? Music is a language, it's a dance of life, and it can be a part of your life without being something that earns.

A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man's heart through half the year.