“Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can’t help but move to it. That’s what happens to me. I can’t help it.’”

People ask me where I got my singing style. I didn’t copy my style from anybody.

The Lord can give, and the Lord can take away. I might be herding sheep next year.

Animals don’t hate, and we’re supposed to be better than them.

There are too many people that depend on me. I’m too obligated. I’m in too far to get out.

The man who can sing when he hasn’t got a thing, he’s the king of the whole wide world.

Everybody comes from the same source. If you hate another human being, you’re hating part of yourself.

Everybody comes from the same source. If you hate another human being, you’re hating part of yourself.

Everybody comes from the same source. If you hate another human being, you’re hating part of yourself.

Never wait for tomorrow, what if tomorrow never comes?

Never wait for tomorrow, what if tomorrow never comes?

To judge a man by his weakest link or deed is like judging the power of the ocean by one wave.

Don’t criticize that man unless you have walked in his shoes.

If you’re smart, you’ll think twice, when they start to sound off with advice.

I’ve never written a song in my life. It’s all a big hoax.

We can’t build our dreams on suspicious minds.

Tomorrow will be too late, it’s now or never.

Just the fact that a thousand people in front of me were ready to hear me sing was one of the best feelings I can think of.

It is impossible for African-Americans not to feel like their government is particularly targeting them.

A man’s admiration of absolute government is proportionate to the contempt he feels for those around him.

I want to feel at home in my own heart.

Sometimes I don’t know what takes me over during a game. Sometimes I just feel I have moved to a different place and I can make the pass, score the goal or go past my marker at will.

I remember thinking how often we look, but never see … we listen, but never hear … we exist, but never feel. We take our relationships for granted. A house is only a place. It has no life of its own. It needs human voices, activity and laughter to come alive.

I have a thing where if I’m not in control, I feel the whole world is about to collapse.

Sometimes I feel like a complete kid when I’m running around with my friends being stupid for a week, and then sometimes I just want to sit in my house and sip tea and watch old movies like I’m 60.