The first country conquered by any dictator is his own country.

I'd like to be remembered as the sower of seeds. That's the greatest parable in the bible as far as I'm concerned. Some seeds fall in the pathway, get stomped on and don't grow. Some fall on the stones and don't even sprout, but others fall on the ground and multiply a thousand fold.

Like most teachers, I'm just another sower of seeds.

Work in nightclubs was interesting. There were interesting people and places, but by and large, the commercial music experience.

When I am chopping trees out in the woods because I heat my house with wood, I feel myself right in the middle of God. Mahalia Jackson said "I have seen God. I have seen the sun rise." So, in a sense, when anyone looks in the mirror, they look at an infinitesimally small part of God.

But I decline to say who has ever listened to them, who has written them, or other people who have sung them.

It was only through the years that I realized what an absolutely extraordinarily thoughtful person Dr. King was.