Mine is only one of the millions of hearts broken over the death of Whitney Houston, I will always be grateful and in awe of the wonderful performance she did on my song, and I can truly say from the bottom of my heart, ‚Whitney, I will always love you. You will be missed.‘

Sisters are brittle things. God was penurious with me, which makes me shrewd with Him. One is a dainty sum! One bird, one cage, one flight; one song in those far woods, as yet suspected by faith only!

Cause I’m a musician, I’m not really good at posing and being a model, like, modeling.

Most of the time, I’m not even working; I’m just helping people, because I feel that I am too lucky.

Some people would claim that things like love, joy and beauty belong to a different category from science and can’t be described in scientific terms, but I think they can now be explained by the theory of evolution.

If you watch any good player, they’re using different parts of their body and working with instruments that respond to those movements. They’re moving in many dimensions at once.

For, verily, great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you little know it, you will be able to love it only little or not at all.

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.

I grew up on the Beatles; I love Linkin Park and Green Day. I heard hip-hop for the first time at 11 and realized what I was missing.

When Clark Gable died, I cried for 2 days straight. I couldn’t eat or sleep.

Intimates are predestined.

No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew her, will remember her.

It’s a privilege to serve the poor, to be servants of noble Africans, but I better belong in the rehearsal room or in the studio with my band. That’s where I want to be and I still wake up in the morning with melodies in my head.

‚Young Indiana Jones’ was one of the happiest times I ever had, so I love television.

I don’t know how to function without music. When I’m not making it, I’m listening to it. It gives me courage and takes care of my mind.

Death surrenders us totally to God: it makes us enter into him; we must, in return, surrender ourselves to death with absolute love and self-abandonment since, when death comes, all we can do is to surrender ourselves completely to the domination and guidance of God.

Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.

‚Trilogy‘ was more of a claustrophobic body of work. Before it was released, I hadn’t left my city for 21 years, and I had never been on a plane, not once. I spent my entire life on one setting; that’s probably why pieces of the album feel like one long track, because that’s what my life felt like. It felt like one long song.

Sometimes I think my husband is so amazing that I don’t know why he’s with me. I don’t know whether I’m good enough. But if I make him happy, then I’m everything I want to be.

There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It’s all authentic.

Metal, I love metal sounds. If I have a stick with me, I just drag it across a fence. And all fences make different sounds, just like people when they laugh.

O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.

There is no love of life without despair of life.

U2’s best work has always been when we didn’t know what we’re doing.

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one’s appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.

I know people said I wasn’t selling out in America, but that was entirely untrue. We sold out all over the world, and every night I looked out into the fans and those front rows that you’re talking about, the tears, the honesty, the inability to not be completely overjoyed because they felt accepted.

My audience went, ‚Wait, why is she singing jazz? What’s going on?‘ And then they went, ‚Oh, because she can. Because she loves it.‘ And jazz, a music invented by the African-American community, is the greatest art form, I believe, to have ever come out of this country.

Barack knows the American Dream because he’s lived it, and he wants everyone in this country to have that same opportunity, no matter who we are or where we’re from or what we look like or who we love.

The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.

I never needed much, and I never thought I’d get more than what I had. A trip to Burger King was the biggest thing in the world to me. Heaven.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana’s loss, and gratitude for her all-too-short life. It is a chance to show to the whole world the British nation united in grief and respect.

Oh, my mama was awesome. Very strict, overreligious, loved the Lord, loved rules. But she had to be that way because of where we were growing up, the neighborhood I was from.

I searched for years I found no love. I’m sure that love will never be a product of plasticity.

You always want to quit while you are ahead. You don’t want to be like a fighter who stays too long in the ring until you’re not performing at your best.

I make good music for long journeys.

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

That thing about being an icon, the fifth Beatle, I just found it so freaky.

Every day is a gift from God. Learn to focus on the Giver and enjoy the gift!

My husband is everything to me and without him it’s just not the same.

Love is about mutual respect, apart from attraction.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

The love of heaven makes one heavenly.

No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.

Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.

O God, we praise Thee for keeping us till this day, and for the full assurance that Thou wilt never let us go.

I love to sit and eat quietly and enjoy each bite, aware of the presence of my community, aware of all the hard and loving work that has gone into my food.

Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.

I never listen to the radio unless I rent a car.

When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole.

Heavenly Father loves every one of His children. After all, He is their Father.

I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.

Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.

If I make music and people hate it, you know, whatever. I’ll die someday, and one day, they will too.

Proper sleep has helped me get to where I am today as an athlete, and it is something that I continue to rely on every day.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.