You gotta love and learn and learn to live.

There's two times of year for me: Football season, and waiting for football season.

You gotta laugh and love and take all life has to give. You gotta live and learn so you can learn to live.

When I was growing up, I always knew that if I ever got anything, I was going to give back as much as I can. I learned that all you have to be willing to do is give your time.

I think people who go out and tell you how much they're gonna change things are the people who end up being just another whatever. I'm never trying to change anything. That's not for me.

It was important to me to find a label that wouldn't back out after a first single. Everyone's so used to hearing me with Hootie, they're going to be skeptical.

We went to church every Sunday. When I was a kid, the only time I sang was around my family.

I don't think I get the respect as a singer. With this record, I wanted to bring respect to my band.

I'm a kid who grew up in an all African-American neighborhood and got into schools and aspired to just be me, and didn't worry about labels or anything. Just wanted to be a success at what I did.

Find something that makes you want to give and give and give 'til it hurts.

All the doors that I had to close. All the things I knew but I didn't know. Thank God for all I missed. 'Cause it led me here to this.

The goal of management is to remove obstacles.

The eastern savanna shifted from charcoal to deep purple

Over my dead body, I thought. Yes, even immortals use that phrase. It has extra oomph for us.

Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.

I am very, very incredulous about what I see. I can't throw caveats in. I don't make blanket statements.

One very fundamental thing has not changed and I realized that it will never change... is that I really need to go home and practice.

All art is at once surface and symbol.

When we sit down to work, we become like a magnetized rod that attracts iron filings. Ideas come. Insights accrete.

He had an opinion of himself, I think, that was too high for his own good. Or maybe it was the reverse. Maybe it was a low opinion that he kept trying to erase.