Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
Just writing and being in the studio was like therapy for me.
Cry me a river, build a bridge, and get over it.
I sang in church growing up. Memphis is the blues capital of the world, we like to say.
I'm completely removed from any hype that comes my way.
I'm not trying to sound pretentious, but we did sell 12 million records on the first album, so we did get paid a little bit.
I think the first half of my 20s I felt I had to achieve, achieve, achieve. A lot of men do this. I'm looking around now and I'm like, Where am I running?
God is busy and has no time for you.
I am fully and intensely aware that plants are conscious of love and respond to it as they do to nothing else.
If you get yourself out of politics, religion, everything, and think as a human, think based on love to everybody, at that moment you have a choice: to be an animal, or to be a human. I choose to be a human being, with conscience and responsibility.
Our compulsive hunger always to know first, speak first and decide first has only been amplified by the fact that we can now all participate instantly in a virtual version of a national cocktail-party conversation on Twitter, Facebook and blogs.