Even in my adult years, when I heard a white person speaking in a Southern accent I was initially suspicious.
You're like a dull knife, just ain't cuttin', just talkin' loud and saying nothing
I just thank God for all of the blessings.
Thank God for the journey.
I'm the most sampled and stolen. What's mine is mine, and what's yours is mine, too. . . I got a song about that. . . But I'm never gonna release it. Don't want a war with the rappers. If it wasn't good, they wouldn't steal it.
Our silence is deafening and deadly.
Like Christ said, love thee one another. I learned to do that, and I learned to respect and be appreciative and thankful for what I had.
To a born-again atheist like myself, it is clear that each of us has multiple selves, talents, perceptions. But to the Roman Catholic, unity is all.
I love to sing and I really love to write, but in terms of being onstage, I'm not that comfortable.
I think it just has to do with getting older and getting better at what it was I was doing, and that I could take something small and kind of take my time with it. I think actually what that has to do with is I quit drinking. Before that I told myself I could only drink if I was - if I was writing, I had to be drinking. So I was on a timer, because eventually you get too drunk to write.
We and the world, my children, will always be at war. Retreat is impossible. Arm yourselves.