When you are through with the blues, you've got nothing to rest on.

Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.

Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say.

When you sing gospel you have a feeling there is a cure for what's wrong.

It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing, that's the Lord's test.

Man has no nobler function than to defend the truth.

God can make you anything you want to be, but you have to put everything in his hands.

Baby, black promoters oppressed me before white promoters ever got hold of me. Don't talk skin to me.

Gospel songs are the songs of hope. When you sing gospel you have the feeling there is a cure for what's wrong, but when you are through with the blues, you've got nothing to rest on.

I sing God's music because it makes me feel free. It gives me hope. With the blues, when you finish, you still have the blues.

Without a song, each day would be a century.

So he tasted the deep pain that is reserved only for the strong, just as he had tasted for a little while the deep happiness.

phase two of Operation Fish and CHIPs (Clean House of the Idiot Piranhas)

The Holy Spirit is our great Teacher.

We tell the stories that we want to tell.

Ganapati, the one with the human body and the head of a Gana, became a tremendous possibility.

I've been a photographer for my whole life and I've done everything with photography that I felt I could do, and I always wanted to be a filmmaker.

Same old eyes, same old world but the difference is how you look at what is in front of you, not what it is.

Don't let your past dictate who you are, but let it be part of who you will become.

The thing you can always rely on, your core person, comes from your family's attention and love.

To have the same desires and the same aversion is assuredly a firm bond of friendship.