I think I have the nicest fans in the world, and I quite like being surrounded by people if we’re all feeling the same emotion in the same room.

The answer to the problem of inequality is for the people who are fortunate enough to either have been gifted or deserved more to do everything they can to make the communities around them as strong as they possibly can.

I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there’s purpose and worth to each and every life.

Even if my songs are quite sad or quite dark, I don’t want my songs to make people sad. It’s very important for me that all my songs have some kind of hope or light.

My connection with Brazil is so abstract. My blood and my way of thinking is Brazilian, but that’s it. I don’t tend to go back to the past, and although I have an apartment there, I rarely visit. When I move, I really move.

Everyone has been in love, at some point or another.

True prayer is neither a mere mental exercise nor a vocal performance. It is far deeper than that – it is spiritual transaction with the Creator of Heaven and Earth.

When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that’s my religion.

You always have to remember that if you say something negative, it’s going to come back to haunt you.

When I think of the love I feel for each member of our family, I sense, to a slight degree, the love that our Heavenly Father bears for His children.

Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.

It’s often just enough to be with someone. I don’t need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You’re not alone.

If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn’t make your house look any better.

I’m not a supermodel. That’s not what I do. What I do is music. I want my fans to feel the way I do, to know what they have to offer is just as important, more important, than what’s happening on the outside.

Smiles are the language of love.

Have you not noticed that love is silence? It may be while holding the hand of another, or looking lovingly at a child, or taking in the beauty of an evening. Love has no past or future, and so it is with this extraordinary state of silence.

We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.

Pretension is a poor joke that you play on yourself. Snap out of it. Recognise your strengths, work on your weaknesses. Real achievement is liking what you see in the mirror every morning.

Every time I come to Europe, I’m just as excited as I was my very first time, which was many, many years ago. I love that part of the world, and I especially love the fans.

I never read one hateful thing said about me by some 12 year old. So I got to live an actual life. And I’ve kept that mentality. Just because there’s a hurricane going on around you doesn’t mean you have to open the window and look at it.

Look folks, we know who built this country and we know who is going to rebuild it. It’s you. Instead of vilifying you, we should be thanking you. We owe you.

We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.

One of the most important decisions you’ll ever make is choosing the kind of universe you exist in: is it helpful and supportive or hostile and unsupportive? Your answer to this question will make all the difference in terms of how you live your life and what kind of Divine assistance you attract.

Technology is nothing. What’s important is that you have a faith in people, that they’re basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they’ll do wonderful things with them.

With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

Years ago, when I first started being a big star, I had fans that were fanatical. It was when ‚Jolene‘ was a big hit.

I know for sure that loves saves me and that it is here to save us all.

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

I think the tiniest little thing can change the course of your day, which can change the course of your year, which can change who you are.

To gather with God’s people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

Songs for me are like a message in a bottle. You send them out to the world, and maybe the person who you feel that way about will hear about it someday.

I don’t feel bitterness, I don’t feel anger towards anybody. Fighting is never emotional to me.

I’m a songwriter. Everything affects me.

When I get down, I don’t waller around for long.

I like to reminisce with people I don’t know.

I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring.

If you can dream it, you can do it.

Joy is the serious business of Heaven.

Cry if you have a compound fracture, by all means. Or if your grandpa died. But otherwise, save it for your pillow.

In a long meter hymn, a singer – they call it ‚lays out a line.‘ And then the whole church joins in in repeating that line. And they form a wall of harmony so tight, you can’t wedge a pin between it.

I’ve learned never to say never.

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.

Put it this way: If I asked, ‚How’s business?‘ and you say, ‚Boomin‘ or ‚Amazing,‘ I already know the answer.

There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It’s always been my way of expressing what, for me, is inexpressible by any other means.

The fact is that since you’re a divine creation who originated in the world of Spirit, you have exactly the right amount of smarts to accomplish all that you need and want to do while you’re here on earth. It’s all perfect… and so are you!

Every bad situation is a blues song waiting to happen.

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.

Sometimes negative news does come out, but it is often exaggerated and manipulated to spread scandal. Journalists sometimes risk becoming ill from coprophilia and thus fomenting coprophagia: which is a sin that taints all men and women, that is, the tendency to focus on the negative rather than the positive aspects.

People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on.

Your energy, your spirit are important considerations. Feeling petty and frustrated can have reverberating consequences for your ability to think strategically and reach your goals.

I think that as you grow up, as you get older, we can’t get bitter, we can’t get jaded.

Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.

Vulnerability is the birthplace of connection and the path to the feeling of worthiness. If it doesn’t feel vulnerable, the sharing is probably not constructive.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.

We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.