Whoever excommunicates me, excommunicates God..

I make my relationships at work..

You understand my music..

The thing about Bob Dylan's performative essence is that he keeps singing these old songs as well as the new songs, and the old songs become new with….

To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend..

Russia's not too great about cooperating with us when there are criminals inside their borders, but all of then like to travel. And so if they travel….

If the song was upbeat, we'd get out a funky Harry Connick, Jr. album, some Louis Prima big band, or a Bob Wills swing record for inspiration and swi….

God never leads anyone anywhere for money..

When we were making vinyl records we had a lot of time limitations for each record so songs were left off for a number of reasons. Now, with CDs, muc….

God is good all the time. Every time..

I wanted to make a record with a twist. I wanted to prove that you could make a record that concentrated on song craft but that was still fun, someth….

When I was writing the Destiny's Child songs, it was a big thing to be that young and taking control. And the label at the time didn't know that we w….

Selfishly, I make music for me. I like to make music. I like looking for songs. I like working with interesting musicians. I like producing records. ….

Those in power write the history while those who suffer write the songs..

I think one of the biggest things that's changed in terms of the rapport with the crowd is that now crowds come to hear our songs. We're getting clos….

Don't go to work to work, go to work to prosper..

In hip-hop, I wasn't very focused on delivering a message. It was just a string of lines that didn't connect. What I wanted to do is write stories...….

I'm on the road so much that I don't get to spend as much time there as I would like..

You can't control what you can't measure.

At the end of the day, if I do a set at a festival and I only have an hour, which is kind of short for a DJ set, I know that I have to play at least ….

I don't know why people enjoy what I do. I play piano and sing a few songs - and that's about as exciting as I want it to get. The people who come to….