"I was born in Alabama and my first live music experiences were in church. Every Sunday we watched regional gospel groups on television singing their hearts out"

"Music is my religion"

"People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest"

"Always live in the ugliest house on the street - then you don't have to look at it"

"Women, can't live with them, can't live without them"

"It's not that we use technology, we live technology"

"Music is the shorthand of emotion"

"Did you know that nearly one in three children live apart from their biological dads? Those kids are two to three times more likely to grow up in poverty, to suffer in school, and to have health and behavioral problems"

"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character"

"My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary"

"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book"