Leave them wanting more and you know they'll call you back.

I will play my part by singing the spirit into every open heart.

I started with Sam Cooke when I was 6 or 7 years old.

People shout out for songs and I don't even remember writing them.

Leave them wanting more and you know they'll call you back.

It is my fondest wish that the gift of song that God has given me will flow from my soul to yours and help ease any burden that might weigh upon you.

I keep living life as it's dealt to me. Sometimes, it's not dealt 100 percent. Sometimes it's dealt on the low '30s.

Nobody could understand why a guy would love his guitar, then all of a sudden turn around and try to destroy it. Jimi was just different.

You gotta know when it's time to hang up. But when I finally go, let me go out on stage, my perfect ending. Don't let me go when I'm sick or asleep. Let me be in motion.

Chicago is old stomping grounds for me.

Estee Lauder cologne. Sam Cooke always wore it, and I started wearing it because he wore it.

I know a lot of people who are not here anymore, and I wonder why I'm still here... Not a day goes by that I don't think about Sam Cooke. His presence is so strong and so convincing to me, a true artist, a true talent, who never talked down to people.

I like to swim, I like to play with my dogs and I love to eat - but I have to start watching that because my suits are getting too small.

I met a zillion people through Ronnie Wood. He's been my friend since he was in The Faces, and he's still my best friend. A real person, earthy, working 24 hours a day, uplifting to be around, and he's still got that fire about music.

I never gave up on music, and I feel like music never gave up on me.

I think people like it when I tell them, 'I'm lucky to be here, because they are, too. Ain't nothing to do with age. There ain't nothing promised to you. Everybody's going to die.

I was hoping I could become a success to give my mother and my father a better way of living.

I was on stage with Cyndi Lauper, and my trousers split. It seemed like she was going to sing for ever.

Once upon a time, I could sing three hours. Now, when you see me say 'I'm done,' I'm done; ain't nothing left till the next night.

People think you have to go through a lot of changes to become a soul singer, You just have to go through life.

Plantation gospel music was the stuff I fell in love with when I was a kid - these beautiful melodies and these hard, hard stories.

We take things for granted, and because we wake up every day, you start talking about what you're going to do next week. I said, 'Who told you you would be here next week?'

When I first played New York, it was with James Brown at the Apollo, and I was playing in a band under the name The Valentinos. I remember Sam Cooke saying, 'I want you to go in there with James Brown. I couldn't be as hard on you as James Brown would be.' But we came out marching like soldiers.

When I want to check out how my life's been, I go through my albums. They steps in my life.

When I was a kid, during those days, you couldn't use instruments. It was against the pastor's religion, so all the singers would make these instruments with their voices. It was just unbelievable. I couldn't explain it.

You knew the difference between Barbra Streisand and Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder and Ray Charles, straight away. Now everyone sounds like each other, and I don't think that's right.

You learn if you mind stay open. And once you can't learn no more, your mind must be closed. Life goes on and you keep growing, you know?

I said it was my feeling that the American people would struggle for peace, and that has since been underscored by the President of these United States.

No matter how difficult your situation is, you can get through it if you don't look too far into the future, and focus on the present moment. You can get through anything one day at a time.

The hardest thing about being an actor, for me, is that if you are the 0.00001% of individuals who wants to do it, you're a freak. And you're an assertive freak. Though actors are often shy, there's this tremendous assertive extroversion in you somewhere.

An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument.

I am not nostalgic for the past.

My flat in Ladbroke Grove, west London, is in the best building in the world. It's like a commune - everyone gets on - and on Friday evenings I often cook us all dinner.

Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

It doesn't make you feel very good being mean and fierce; it is much nicer playing people who are kind and sweet.

Our highest priorities are safe operations and the well-being of the people and communities we serve.

Dystopian by definition promises a darker story.

Most of my books have something to do with L.A.

If I were a girl, I always like Chanel. It's so stylish and timeless. So I like Karl Lagerfeld a lot.

To me it was never about what I accomplished on the football field, it was about the way I played the game.

Most of what gets made now, you laugh your way through, go home and forget you've seen it.

Bin Laden's death is just a punctuation point on a set of problems they've had for a long time. I think the prognosis for al-Qaida and groups like it is really bad, and that's a good thing.

Flannel shirts, denim, Converse, a guitar, messy hair? That's literally me.

When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking.

I've been a biker, I've been a convict, I've been a husband, father, and son.

Our goal is to see Big History become a normal part of high school curricula. I'd love to see it being taught in lots of languages. A global course.

I started out doing things like 'Flash Forward,' where I was the girl-next-door, and then, I did a show called 'Higher Ground,' where I played this really mean, sarcastic girl. Then 'Firefly' happened, and everybody thought of me as this bubbly, sweet girl-next-door again.

Bambi can't act. Bambi had major attitude.

It's kind of hard coming from 'Saturday Night Live,' which is a sketch-driven show, to a movie.