The most consistent musical experience I had growing up was church music.

I started my teenage years singing in churches across America, and finally wound up on a big stage.

Life is a process, and you just take it a day at a time, and you can't live in tomorrow, and you can't reach back and be in yesterday. No matter how much you want to, you just have what's right there in front of you.

I'm frustrated by something, it's my fault for exposing myself to it in the first place. The rumor mill always seemed like a grass fire to me. Why walk out in the middle of the field, it's just going to flame out and go away just like everything else does?

Data will always bear the marks of its history. That is human history held in those data sets.

When it comes to the cause of justice, I take no prisoners and I don't believe in compromise.

The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources.

There is no degree of human suffering which in and of itself is going to bring about change. Only organisation can change things.