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?

The philosophers of the Middle Ages demonstrated both that the Earth did not exist and also that it was flat. Today they are still arguing about whether the world exists, but they no longer dispute about whether it is flat.

I'd gone into that restaurant and sat down and the waitress had taken my order and everybody else had seen me with this what must have looked like this creature, this animal, sitting on the top of my head!

I've overcome neglect and deprivation, abandonment and abuse.

I honestly don't read that much. Obviously I read chess books - in terms of favorites, Kasparov's 'My Great Predecessors' is pretty good.

Why join the navy if you can be a pirate?

Remember that happiness is a way of travel not a destination.

Sometimes we wait for thunderclaps, drumrolls, and clarion calls to alert us to what's important when, actually, it's most often the subtle and persistent signals around us that make the most difference.

I don't trust politicians. I think that by the time they've made it, with the concessions they've had to make in that position, I don't believe they still have the beliefs they had at the root.

Americans like fat books and thin women.

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

We're not going to cure terrorism and spread peace and goodwill in the Middle East by killing innocent people, or I'm not even saying our bullets and bombs are killing them. The occupation that they don't have food. They don't have clean water. They don't have electricity. They don't have medicine. They don't have doctors.

There are a lot of people who think that's what's needed to be successful is always being right, always being careful, always picking the right path.

What I like in comedies are really two things: stories that are character-driven and stories that are rooted in authenticity.

Be original; don't be scared of being bold!

If you dont take good care of your credit then your credit wont take good care of you.

Steel wins battles. Gold wins wars.

People think coming in under the radar is like being a fighter pilot and actually coming in under the radar. It's a completely ridiculous idea to come in under the radar. It's the Olympics; everyone is on the radar here.

I take my dog Tinkerbell seriously. I take my job seriously. But I don't take myself all that seriously.

I have been addicted to crime since I was born. I was making up crime stories when I was a 4- or 5-year-old kid.

Obama's a great speaker. Because of his speaking ability and his appearance, a lot of guys got on board. Being the first African American, a lot guys got on board.

The man of regular life and rational mind never despairs.

Life is the most difficult exam. Many people fail because they try to copy others not realizing that everyone has a different question paper.Life is the most difficult exam. Many people fail because they try to copy others not realizing that everyone has a different question paper.