There is a great feeling in a small venue, with the closeness of the people and the intimacy.

If I wasn't my age, I would turn a flip. I would do some cartwheels. That's how I feel.

I'm singing these songs to inspire you, to keep you going, to lift you up and give you a reason to get up in the morning

There's still injustice happening in my world. I sing my songs at concerts and I'm so grateful that the people are ready to hear them.

I won't wear rings and jewelry on the stage because I don't want you looking at my hands. I want you hearing what I'm saying.

I have to pinch myself sometimes. It's unbelievable, but it's not. Because I know that this would not be happening if it hadn't been for Dr. Martin Luther King.

Well Lord, I'm still on the case. I'm still doing what Dr. King and Pops want me to do. I'm still on that freedom highway, and I'm going to walk on it until Dr. King's dream is realized.

I never sang for a Grammy, for money, for fame. That's my whole purpose for singing: for people, for the fans.

We stay strong. We stay positive, keep our heads up, love one another, spread love. The Devil can't win when you have God on your side.

Music is such a joy, just an absolute joy.

I have fun just about everywhere I go.

Amin, you’re not making sense to me. Things have always been this way, since the beginning of time. Some die so others can be saved. You don’t believe in the salvation of others?

I wanted to join Footlights, ” he says. “I wanted to be a writer-performer like the Pythons. In fact I wanted to be John Cleese and it took me some time to realise that the job was in fact taken.

I'm obsessed with politics, and I talk about it any chance I can get. I have strong opinions about how the world should be run.

Nothing is constant except change

Sometimes what is most important to us is not obvious and can be seen only by how we respond to our husbands in everyday life.

The civil justice system is a backup system when the criminal justice system fails.

The mass are animal, in pupilage, and near chimpanzee.

Where shall the word be found, where will the word / Resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.

Europe itself is an embodiment of this diversity.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds