The absence of a bass player always makes things go faster and hit harder in the high-end range.

I have been a provoker and I'll probably always be one in the public arena for the rest of my life.

It's like soul music, isn't it all soul music? Otherwise what is it, non-soul music? I-have-no-soul music? Soulless music? People need to put a name on something to identify it, and I understand it.

I really love that type of music where someone can take a guitar or light instrumentation and a beautiful voice and can send me somewhere.

The pleasure of other people is a byproduct of the pleasure that comes from yourself so I cannot judge or look down on someone who does whatever they feel like doing.

Anything lower than mid-six figures is not going to get me interested in that. And honestly, I just don't want to.

If tears were liquor/ I'd have drunk myself sick.

I've never presented myself as anything less than a flawed person.

When you get a chance to play with people - informally is one thing, but when you hook up and make something that's going to last or mean something to someone, I take it very seriously.

I'm a very private person. What I did in the past or what somebody heard me do or has a bootleg of me doing...well, if you have a bootleg, then I did it.

I think you can find yourself in life perhaps not really being the master of your own life and it is within your own will and tenacity whether you switch the roles or not.

Make people feel great when they feel small. Make them feel responsible when they feel great.

Perseverance is not a passive submission to circumstances—it is a strong and active response to the difficult events of life.

Sometimes you find your destiny on the road you took to avoid it.

Nonviolence is one of those immutable principles that we cannot and must not deviate from.

We've never been anti-Semitic.

When we change the way that we pray, everything changes.

We need community action and policies to support healthy communities.

I love people. I wanted to be with the people. I wanted to give something back what I get from football, because God gave everything to me.

Death is profoundly meaningful. Discovering what it is in itself we will know the secret of life.

How-how can we make it against the whole world?