Anything human can be felt through music, which means that there is no limit to the creating that can be done with music. You can take the same phrase from any song and cut it up so many different ways - it's infinite. It's like God... you know?

Every day has its emotional difficulties. I miss my mother whether I'm singing her music or not.

I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs... and good ones.

It doesn't matter to me what is going on today because my music encompasses every kind of mood that exists in human beings. That's my stick.

I was always a politician from the day the civil rights people chose me as their protest singer.

My love is like the wind and wild is the wind. Give me more than one caress, satisfy my hungriness. Let the wind blow through your heart for wild is the wind.

Slavery has never been abolished from America's way of thinking.