While housing discrimination and segregation in 2005 still affect millions of people, that's not the way it has to be. Some things can change and should.

Some things will never change.

When I wrote the song, The Way It Is, I wanted to move people to take a stand on civil rights in this country.

I guess after you've been doing something for 20 plus years, you have to work to stay interested.

I feel like what I owe my audience is what I'm most passionate about.

When I have the time at home, I'll practice three or four hours a day. I have to. And I'm a late starter; I started at age 17 and at age 51 I'm still learning.

We still play three or four hits every night. Now, we don't play them like the record. We try to find new ways to do it.

Made my bed and here I lie, try to hold my head up high. Lying to myself sometimes, bad decisions but I, I won't cry.

I'm a kid for a living: I get to play the piano for a living.

All the music I write is a search for myself.

Plenty of people who survive tragedies end up ambivalent about danger--frightened by it, yet strangely drawn to it.

Actions don't only speak louder than words; actions should be used to interpret words.

Man's experience is indeed a seamless garment, no part of which can be separated from the rest.

We will insure that other countries take their people back when they order them deported.

All honor to the noble women that have devoted earnest lives to the intellectual needs of mankind!

A man that is ashamed of passions that are natural and reasonable is generally proud of those that are shameful and silly.

The ban on the burkini, which is basically a wetsuit, seems particularly ridiculous.

What's the difference between obsolete and cutting edge? Obsolete works.

I really enjoy doing films, but I also love television. I certainly would not be against doing some regular television work and being on a show that runs several years.

You cannot go wrong with Bugs Bunny. He's the coolest cartoon character ever. I quote him all the time.