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

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.

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.’

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.

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.’

There’s no job too immense, when you got confidence.

I don’t like people who are in politics for themselves and not for others. You want that, you can go into show business.

The image is one thing and the human being is another. It’s very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.

Live each day, as if it we’re your last. It’s written in the stars, your destiny is cast.

When I first saw you with your smile so tender, my heart was captured, my soul surrendered.

Anytime you work with animals, you begin to see more humanity in them.

The journey of fire begins, survives and ends with air.

The fear of God is not the beginning of wisdom. The fear of God is the death of wisdom. Skepticism and doubt lead to study and investigation, and investigation is the beginning of wisdom.

A performer learns with experience and with age. I did not know the future when I left home and started out to begin my career: I started qawaali; then I met Peter Gabriel and was exposed to a lot of new ideas.

The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less.

The beginning is the promise of the end.

People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.

As warmth makes even glaciers trickle, and opens streams in the ribs of frozen mountains, so the heart knows the full flow and life of its grief only when it begins to melt and pass away.