“Redemption comes to those who wait, forgiveness is the key.”

You spend your life dreaming, running ’round in a trance, You hang out forever and still miss the dance, And if you get lucky, you might find someone, To help you get over the pain that will come.

I’m not exactly a guy who makes new friends easily.

Most things I worry about never happen anyway.

When you kill somebody’s little sister with a missile, he’s going to hate you forever. And the next generation will hate you even more.

I always liked the idea of the guitar – because cowboys played the guitar.

It’s very easy to be cynical about the hall of fame. But on the other hand, it’s really a beautiful thing for someone like me. I dedicated my entire life to this music.

I’ve always had a great love for the blues.

What I’ve learned about marriage: You need to have each other’s back; you have to be a kind of team going through life.

I don’t think it’s a good attitude in your life to feel that you have to be rich to have self-esteem.

I don’t believe in censorship, but I do believe that an artist has to take some moral responsibility for what he or she is putting out there.

Honey, don’t walk out, I’m too drunk to follow.

I’m learning to fly, but I ain’t got wings. Coming down is the hardest thing.

Just wonderin’, waitin’, worryin’ about some silly little things, that just don’t add up to nothin’.

I’m so tired of being tired. Sure as night will follow day most things I worry about will never happen anyway.

Music is probably the only real magic I have encountered in my life. There’s not some trick involved with it. It’s pure and it’s real. It moves, it heals, it communicates and does all these incredible things.

Even the losers get lucky sometimes!

I endowed it with unlimited potentialities, redeemed it for the sake of my own hungry and cloudy yearning.

I knew that I lived in a country in which the aspirations of black people were limited, marked-off. Yet I felt that I had to go somewhere and do something to redeem my being alive.

William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.

Look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.

We can all do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments.

An evil deed is not redeemed by an evil deed in retaliation.

We’re trapped in a world that’s troubled with pain. As long as a man has the strength to dream, he can redeem his soul and fly.