The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was vigorously and vociferously opposed by the Southern states. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed it into law nonetheless.

The ones who don't do anything are always the ones who try to pull you down.

Music, to me, is mankind's greatest possible achievement because look at all the good it does.

I get tired of talking when I want to be silent.

Everyone who knows me knows that I'm a hopeless romantic who listens to love ballads and doo-wop songs all the time.

I am a veteran of the War on Christmas. I am just emerging from a battlefield strewn with dead trees and torn shreds of brightly colored wrapping paper.

I don't have talent. I have tenacity.