“Gospel music is the purest thing there is on this earth.”

I’m not trying to be sexy. It’s just my way of expressing myself when I move around.

The only thing worse than watching a bad movie is being in one.

You only pass through this life once, you don’t come back for an encore.

Love had surely made us all and hate would surely make us fall.

Memories, pressed between the pages of my mind. Memories, sweetened through the ages just like wine.

I don’t do any vulgar movements.

I don’t feel I’ll live a long life. That’s why I have to get what I can from every day.

Sharing money is what gives it its value.

Since the beginning, it was just the same. The only difference, the crowds are bigger now.

I’m with a crowd but so alone.

Talent is being able to sell what you’re feeling.

Your kisses lift me higher like the sweet song of a choir. You light my morning sky, with burning love.

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

It’s not how much you have that makes people look up to you, it’s who you are.

I love only one girl, one in every town.

Music should be something that makes you gotta move, inside or outside.

Formal religion was organized for slaves: it offered them consolation which earth did not provide.

Don’t make it necessary for me to complain about you to Christ crucified. (There is no one else I can complain to, since there is no one greater than you on earth.

Humanity, take a good look at yourself. Inside, you’ve got heaven and earth, and all of creation. You’re a world – everything is hidden in you.

Circling the earth in the orbital spaceship I marvelled at the beauty of our planet. People of the world!! Let us safeguard and enhance this beauty-not destroy it

The starship Enterprise was a metaphor starship Earth, and the vision was that the strength of this starship lay in its diversity.

We are not on this earth to just stand still & look pretty. The museums already have enough statues.

I ate my grief and swallowed salt tears like they were the only things left on earth to consume.

When I orbited the Earth in a spaceship, I saw for the first time how beautiful our planet is. Mankind, let us preserve and increase this beauty, and not destroy it!