I feel like, in some ways, I'm just a journalist.

I've always been a very prolific writer.

It was nice to focus on things outside of my body. Music has always done that for me.

Being a good songwriter means paying attention and sticking your hand out the window to catch the song on the way to someone else's house!

But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as an inferior, and God is there, and we look up and He is not white? What then is our response?

You cannot be President of the United States if you don't have faith. Remember Lincoln, going to his knees in times of trial in the Civil War and all that stuff.

God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.

God gives life and he takes life. Everybody who dies, dies because God wills that they die.