What humor allows you to do is to let the past go with less pain. It's a healing element. It releases some of the pain from the shotgun wound.

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.

Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.

Keep trying no matter how many times you have failed.If you fail, try, try again.Never stop trying.You success will come unexpected.

You've got to love what's yours.

If congress has the right under the Constitution to issue paper money, it was given them to use themselves, not to be delegated to individuals or corporations.

Adding an Olympic medal to everything that I have already accomplished would be so huge for me.

There isn't any air power in the world that can take care of the problem of sectarian divisions.

When interest rates are low we have conditions for asset bubbles to develop, and they are developing at the moment. The ultimate asset bubble is gold.

Even the frankest and bravest of subordinates do not talk with their boss the same way they talk with colleagues.

I'm always the one who gets killed. And I want it to be really gory. Body parts all over the place. Mangled!

I don't believe you can say 'forever'; I don't believe it exists.