When you write songs, you try to tap into something that isn't straightforward in your head. Whatever you're feeling most strongly about usually comes out in your writing.

I do think that really great music will divide people, and people will love and hate it at the same time.

I think in music there is just something inherently spiritual in singing together and harmonizing, and gospel is the truest form of that.

I have my own goals in my head in terms of things that would be great to happen.

If you're religious or not, the world and society lacks as much of community spirit as it had.

And even when success comes, as I am sure it will, bear in mind that there are more quiet and enviable joys than to be among the most sought after women at a ball...

Death is the great incorruptible corruptor

I wish I were with some of the wild people that run in the woods and know nothing about accomplishments!

Sometimes we misjudge what is possible and what is not.

Look at the sky. Ask yourselves: Has the sheep eaten the flower, yes or no? And you will see how everything changes.

I didn't want to be a priest. I wanted to do the work that priests do, and that required becoming a priest.

Look, I'm in the top 20 of players who ever lived.

Gold that buys health can never be ill spent, Nor hours laid out in harmless merriment.

He who hears this name [God] from a Jew must inform the authorities, or else throw sow dung at him when he sees him and chase him away.

We all have choices and must make them for ourselves.