It's hard to get by just upon a smile.

Positive thoughts and prayer have been the best means available, since the beginning of time, to transform darkness to light.

Being larger than life, or being projected as such in the music business, leads you to question yourself. Some people try to forget about it by taking drugs or too much drink, but I was never like that. I was aware that there were very serious, big questions, and I was petrified about what might be in store for me.

I'm gonna get me a gun, all those people who put me down you better get ready to run.

I tried Zen and Ching, numerology, tarot cards and astrology. I tried to look back into the Bible, and could not find anything. At this time I did not know anything about Islam, and then, what I regarded as a miracle occurred. My brother had visited the mosque in Jerusalem, and was greatly impressed that while on the one hand it throbbed with life.

Vanity is the most dangerous thing about fame.

If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, cause there's a million ways to be, you know that there are.