This is my hobby: growing stores, adding stores. It's fun.

You need an attitude of service. You're not just serving yourself. You help others to grow up and you grow with them.

If I die without food or without eternal salvation, I want to die without food.

Coming from a family of preachers, the idea of giving back has been part of my life as long as I can remember.

I'm a child of God. God is my mommy, my daddy. That's the only thing that'll keep my head up. If I don't remember who I am in him, I'm done.

It's strange because we think of the upper middle class, for example, as being secular, that they've fallen away from religion. Well, it turns out that the upper middle class goes to church more often and feels a much stronger affiliation with their religion than the white working class.

Cover Me.' 'Take Time To Know Her.' 'Warm and Tender Love.' 'Out Of Left Field.' 'Dark End Of The Street.' 'Tears Me Up.' 'My Special Prayer.' All points back to one song. 'When A Man Loves A Woman.' The Grand-daddy to all of my songs. The boss of all of my songs. I have great respect for that song. Always will.

I come from a very la-ti-da East Coast intellectual family - or so they think.