"Ah, woe is me! Winter is come and gone. But grief returns with the revolving year."

“My music has always been sort of in-between categories. Sometimes record stores -- back when there were record stores -- they'd put my records in the country music section, but other record stores would put my records in the pop or even the rock section. As long as it's in the store somewhere, I'm OK with it.”

“The physical voice we use in prayer need not be great nor startling; even should we not lift up any great cry or shout, God will yet hear us.”

“I would rather sit still in a state of peace on a stone than ride in the motor-car of a multi-millionaire and feel the peacelessness of the multi-millionaire poisoning me.”

“God, I'm just a fat bald guy, 60 years old, singing the blues, you know?”

Source : "Interview: Joe Cocker lyric". AskMen Interview, www.askmen.com.

“Support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent, and warn the opposed.”

Source : "Character: Whitney Young". "Independent Lens ", TV Series (1999– ). "The Powerbroker: Whitney Young's Fight for Civil Rights", www.imdb.com. 2013.

“I don't want easy, just possible.”

“It used to be that I wanted to be taller. Once I made 5-foot-1, I was happy.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“Any artist that's involved in their work is inevitably going to have a focus in what they do.”