“Suicide is not an answer, it’s destruction.”

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.

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.

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 thought the answer was to bury the pain deep within, but nothing grows from grief.

Sometimes silence is the only answer.

You’ve got to have faith in what you’re doing and not take no for an answer.

She is the answer to my every prayer.

If more government is the answer, then it was a really stupid question.

The answer must be, I think, that beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them. The least we can do is try to be there.

You have to let other people be right’ was his answer to their insults. ‘It consoles them for not being anything else.

Deep within you, you have all the answers.