Sometimes you struggle so hard to feed your family one way, you forget to feed them the other way, with spiritual nourishment. Everybody needs that.

My expectations of other people, I double them on myself.

I only got a seventh-grade education, but I have a doctorate in funk, and I like to put that to good use

Money won't change you, but time will take you out.

Papa didn't cuss, he didn't raise a whole lot of fuss. But when we did wrong, Papa beat the hell out of us.

When I'm on stage, I'm trying to do one thing: bring people joy. Just like church does. People don't go to church to find trouble, they go there to lose it.

When you touch me, good God.