Without despair, we will share, and the joys of caring will not be erased. What has been, must never end, the joys of caring will not be replace.

Be good to yourself 'cause nobody else has the power to make you happy.

I still believe that music is one of the greatest gifts that God gave to man.

I've done too many stupid things for there not to be movies made about me when I'm dead, so I might as well write the script.

Change is a stranger you have yet to know.

People, you can never change the way they feel. Better let them do what they will. For they will, if you let them, steal your heart.

It's important to me that I should be free to express myself.

The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it's total crap to pretend it's not.

I have to believe that somebody up there thinks I've still got some work to do.

I have never thought about my sexuality being right or wrong. To me it has always been a case of finding the right person.

I just hope that I'll stay around musically for as long as I can. I love to think that I will still be satisfying myself and other people as a musician until the day I die.

We are justified by faith and saved by grace.

There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

I only train, I don't know what a break is.

Commercials are not the only exposure that obesity gets on TV. It is by no means a rarity on the wonderful Judge Judy's show when both plaintiff and accused all but literally fill the screen.

The law of conservation of energy tells us we can't get something for nothing, but we refuse to believe it.

Ebonics - or black English, as I prefer to call it - is one of a great many dialects of English. And so English comes in a great many varieties, and black English is one of them.

rejected both the appropriateness of an apology and of monetary redress.

Die every day. Be reborn again every day.

It was a crazy game. We could have scored five...oh right, we did score five, but we could have scored six, seven or eight.