There's a lot of things blamed on me that never happened. But then, there's a lot of things that I did that I never got caught at.

You're so heavenly minded, you're no earthly good.

Happiness is being at peace, being with loved ones, being comfortable...but most of all, it's having those loved ones.

It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks

As sure as God made black and white, what's done in the dark will be brought to the light.

It's like a novelist writing far out things. If it makes a point and makes sense, then people like to read that. But if it's off in left field and goes over the edge, you lose it. The same with musical talent, I think.

Gospel music was the thing that inspired me as a child growing up on a cotton farm, where work was drudgery and it was so hard that when I was in the field I sang all the time. Usually gospel songs because they lifted me up above that black dirt.