Play with me and you play with fire.

As for me, I rarely write a song. But when I do write a song, like "Ain't No Chimneys in the Projects," which came to me at three a.m. one morning, on a whim - I get a percentage.

I never took any kind of vocal lessons or teachings of how to - I never even took piano lessons. And a voice just came to me and said, go play the piano in the church.

You know a man can play the part of a saint just so long for a day comes when his true, his true self unfolds.

God's eye is on a sparrow. And I know - oh, yes, I know he watches over me...

I'm singing, you know, because I'm happy and I'm free.

If God watches over a little sparrow, you know, if he takes care of the birds, a little sparrow. Here I am, one of his children, you know, he got so many of us down here. Human beings that send our faith up and believe. And if he watch over a sparrow, I know he watches over me.