We need that expression. Whether we want to call it protest or not, we need to express and echo the echoes of the people. Artists need to do that.

People in the Hall of Fame tend to clap their hands and say, 'OK, I've done it all,' but for me, it was a new beginning.

Got your mind set on a dream, you can get it though how hard it may seem.

Good thinking brings good feeling and good feeling brings good thinking.

Rome was not built in a day Opposition will come your way But the harder the battle you see It's the sweeter the victory

I'd rather be a free man in my grave than living as a puppet or a slave.

I love to create and that's what gives my soul the satisfaction.

And I keep on fighting for the things I want. Though I know that when you're dead you can't. But I'd rather be a free man in my grave, than living as a puppet or a slave.

In the country, people are kind. In the city, people are hard an' cold, like the concrete and steel.

I've done a lot of things to become what I've become, out to create and establish a musical form and I call it movie.

Social justice has always been a part of my inspiration. For example, when the Vietnam War was going on, I wrote a song about that.

Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.

Don't judge people by what others tell you

As men get older, the toys get more expensive.

Weddings and funerals are when you figure out who your real friends are.

If your life is full, you will paint full pictures. If it is empty, your pictures will be empty too.

The Chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chessboard, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem

Schuyler pulled Oliver close and hugged him tightly. "Thank you," she whispered. Thank you for loving me enough to let me go.

I don't care about the Constitution

The important thing is not to be masochistic. Women are so hard on themselves. Don't do that. No one is keeping score.