“People still come up to me and ask me to sign their records. That’s right, records! Man, they don’t even make records no more!”

I don’t think I do have a soul.

What they have forgotten they have forgotten: what they meant to do instead of fall is not in earth or time recoverable the fossils of intention, the shapes of rot.

Uneasily the leaves fall at this season, forgetting what to do or where to go; the red amnesiacs of autumn drifting thru the graveyard forest.

If I could live my life all over I’d do everything the same; the film in my camera would remain the same; there’s no way lord, to leave this love behind.

Pakistan’s being an ally and helping the United States, we ought to show

I’m thankful for every moment.

I did a whole concert in Atlanta with my fly open, and I had a black suit on and a white shirt. My white shirt was protruding from the fly.

I learned more stuff in church than I did in the world.

I have found people on both sides of the aisle, white and black, that’ll give you the shirt off their back.

Trials can be hard, if you don’t know God.

I didn’t have a mother; I had a mama. I measure other women by the stature of my mama.

Suicide is not an answer, it’s destruction.

And I’ve also found people that won’t give you a piece of bread if you’re starving to death.

No child wants to fail. Everyone wants to succeed.

Teach success before teaching responsibility. Teach them to believe in themselves.

The music is the message, the message is the music.

A good impression is great. But a bad impression is even better.

I have two or three shows that I follow, and even those are few and far.

If the community is happy, then they support your business and if your business is doing well, then you can give back even more to the community.

Love of another individual opens a new relation between the personality and the world. The lover responds in a new way to nature and may even write poetry.

Sometimes I’m not even satisfied when I got 6 points and 22 rebounds, because I’m always looking to do more.

The function of protecting and developing health must rank even above that of restoring it when it is impaired.

The music left only this bad hurt in her, and a blankness. She could not remember any of the symphony, not even the last few notes. She tried to remember, but no sound at all came to her. Now that it was over there was only her heart like a rabbit and this terrible hurt.

It’s better to be dead, or even perfectly well, than to suffer from the wrong affliction.