I was born in a little place called Inverness, MS.

My mom moved up between Leland and Greenville when I was just a little tot.

Most times we would make more money in the tip boxes - they called it - than we were getting paid.

And one of my favorites was Eddy Arnold of course. He just had that smooth, soulful voice.

I was born in a little place called Inverness, MS.

So I got a chance to meet a whole bunch of those old real, real rough but gentle men. They lived hard, but they lived good - in one sense, you know. But you had a lot of fun. Didn't make much money, but you had a lot of fun.

And I tell my audience, you know, give the real stars a round of applause. Because without them I'm nobody. So I learned so much from people like that.

I'm from the Mississippi delta originally.

I did learn that it was the greatest thing in the world to respect yourself. Respect other people.

I was never into the Bluegrass, Bill Monroe and stuff like that.

We could play them through the week, and then the weekend we could play the black joints. I learned to be very versatile and learned to love it. So it stays with me even up to now.

There is nobody that I know who believes that Bank of America is a human being who should be entitled for the same constitutional rights that the people of our country are.

Wiley has given me wise words a few times.

Those opportunities to play in championship games are few and far between.

A masterpiece doesn't so much transcend its time as perpetuate it; it keeps its moment alive.

Once I had a better beat I needed to have an even better one. And somewhere in that climbing I lost sight of sort of my moral and ethical underpinnings.

We assume, to begin with, that the individual is at least as complex in his internal structure as the language is which he speaks - otherwise, how could he speak a language which is complex?

If you're trying to write about very strong horror, very strong fear or very strong emotion, it's easy to overwrite it.

Traditional horizontal search engines cannot always identify the target audience, niche or vertical industry of a page or site. Vertical search engines address this issue by the nature of their design. They identify sites according to more specific criteria and sometimes even by human input.

Citizen activists look in the mirror, see what they're really good at and then apply their talents to solving social problems. It's skills-based volunteering.

I really can't imagine not singing again.

Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

Our entire life... consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.

I am proud to be a Sikh and am a true disciple of Guru Gobind Singh, who sacrificed his entire family for the Sikh religion.

When I got into the Beatles, I must have only been about six or seven but old enough to take notice. We used to have an old radiogram which, for readers of a certain age, was like a big cabinet thing with a record player inside it.

I think every artist strives for a record that crosses all energy, lines, boundaries or languages or barriers.

Puerto Rico has a stray dog problem. Tens of thousands of homeless canines - hundreds of thousands, by some estimates - live and die on the streets and beaches all over this Caribbean island of almost four million people.

I'm 48 now and whatever I get music-wise, I get from my kids and that's it. I don't think I'll ever be hip again!

I have acquired - some would say deservedly - quite a few rivals: former Israeli politicians, some of whom at their height were stars beloved by large parts of the public. But today, they aren't in politics, and when they sit alone in their room, they say to themselves that Barak is the one who showed them out the door.

I love to engage with people who come to see us.

Government is nothing more than the combined force of society or the united power of the multitude for the peace order safety good and happiness of the people.

A man who treats his woman like a princess is proof that he has been born and raised in the arms of a queen.

You've got to trust people. And because I am a control freak, sometimes that's difficult for me, because I want to micro-manage absolutely everything. I can't hand over. But I'm trying to do that more.

Creating a better world requires teamwork, partnerships, and collaboration, as we need an entire army of companies to work together to build a better world within the next few decades. This means corporations must embrace the benefits of cooperating with one another.

I'm a Christian, and I'm not judgmental towards anyone. I think that's really important.