But you know, happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

This is my first marriage. Beforehand, I was living in sin.

The Bible does not need advertising by me, but I wish more people could be persuaded to read it. Perhaps if they had been, we should not have this war on our hands. For greed and idleness brought it on.

The advertisers who believe in the selling power of jingles have never had to sell anything.

It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.

I often wonder whether Negroes like myself who are pretty well known help out at all in breaking down barriers.

It is difference of opinion that makes horse races.

If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.

Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late.

The thing I always default to is that I’ll always be here to write songs.

What I learned the most from Prince was putting art first, being creatively ambitious, and putting creativity at the forefront of what I do.

I believe success is achieved by ordinary people with extraordinary determination.

I don’t care what I look like; it’s how people think of me. I do care how people think of me. I want people to say, ‘Oh, she’s nice,’ rather than, ‘Oh, she’s so pretty.’

I have always tried to avoid regrets. Could I have done differently some things in my career? Maybe.

I don’t think there’s any way it could have failed. We don’t know failure in this band. We didn’t know failure. We got to know it a little after awhile but at that time there was no such word.

I do believe I am special. My special gift is my vision, my commitment, and my willingness to do whatever it takes.

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.