"Her brother's smart, he's got more sense than many, His patience long, but soon he won't have any, To find a job is like a haystack needle, 'Cause where he lives, they don't use coloured people, Living just enough, just enough for the city."

"A boy is born in hard time Mississippi, Surrounded by four walls that ain't so pretty, His parents give him love and affection, To keep him strong, moving in the right direction, Living just enough, just enough for the city."

"But what I'd like to know, Is could a place like this Exist so beautiful? Or do we have to find our wings and fly away To the visions in our mind?"

"I believe when I fall in love with you It will be forever."

"When you believe in things that you don't understand, Then you suffer, Superstition ain't the way."

"Very superstitious, Writings on the wall, Very superstitious, Ladder's 'bout to fall, Thirteen month old baby, Broke the looking glass, Seven years of bad luck, The good things in your past."

"I feel like this is the beginning, Though I've loved you for a million years, And if I thought our love was ending, I'd find myself drowning in my own tears."

"You are the sunshine of my life, That's why I'll always be around, You are the apple of my eye, Forever you'll stay in my heart."

"I'm happier than the morning sun, And that's the way you said that it would be, If I should ever bring you inside my life."

"When the summer came you were not around, Now the summer's gone and love cannot be found, Where were you when I needed you last winter, my love?"

"But, very well, I believe I know you very well, Wish that you knew me too, very well, And I think I can deal with everything going through your head."

"Like a fool I went and stayed too long, Now I'm wondering if your love's still strong, Ooh, baby, here I am, Signed, sealed, delivered, I'm yours!"

"For once in my life I won’t let sorrow hurt me, Not like it’s hurt me before, oh For once I have something I know won't desert me ‘Cause I’m not alone anymore."

"For once in my life I have someone who needs me, Someone I needed so long."

"My Cherie Amour, pretty little one that I adore You're the only girl my heart beats for How I wish that you were mine."

"Baby, everything is alright, Uptight, outta sight!"

"What I’ve not heard is a unanimous commitment to atone for the sins of this country... I know that dance. I've heard those songs. It was an 18-year fight to (make) Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday a national holiday... Yet it was a fight I was not willing to lose... Systemic racism can have an ending. Police brutality can have an ending. Economic repression of Black and brown people can have an ending... A movement without action is a movement standing still. To those who say they care: Move more than your mouth. Move your feet to the polls, and use your hands to vote... Black lives do matter. And this is not another digital, viral trend, moment or hashtag, Yes, all lives do matter, but they only matter when black lives matter too."

"I've been a vegan for two years, so that's helped my already good-looking self. I think that eating healthy is important. … We have to be about making our planet more greener, the urban areas more sustainable for the children. We can't just talk about it, we have to be about it. … I'm motivating people to do something about how we are living on this planet. … You know it is only possible to be able to have the blessing of song through the fact that God has given me life. And the only way we can have life is by perpetuating life in how we live."

"Sometimes I think I would love to see … just to see the beauty of flowers and trees and birds and the earth and grass. … Being as I've never seen, I don't know what it's like to see. So in a sense I'm complete. Maybe I'd be incomplete if I did see. Maybe I'd see some things that I didn't want to see … the beauty of the earth compared to the destruction of man. You see, it's one thing when you are blind from birth, and you don't know what it's like to see, anyway, so it is just like seeing. The sensation of seeing is not one that I have and not one that I worry about."

"We all have ability. The difference is how we use it."

"From Bad Boy of Music, on his life as a concert pianist:"

"From Bad Boy of Music, on dealing with unruly audiences:"

"And I fear my fear is greater than my faith"

"So she prays for a prankster and lust in the marriage bed And he waits till she can give And he waits and he waits."

"Is it sweet, your sting?"

"Say a word to the hangman for me, me and my baby."

"Just having thoughts of Marianne, quickest girl in the frying pan."

"You thought that you were the bomb, yes well so did I."

"I have got my rape hat on, honey, but I always could accessorize."

"Nothing's gonna stop me from floating."

"Give me life, give me pain, give me myself again."

"A man bites into a dry peach and says "This peach is not good;" the peach replies "It is not my fault that you don't know the proper use for a dry peach.""

"If you know me so well, then tell me which hand I use."

"I can't believe that I would keep, keep you from flying And I would cry a thousand more if that's what it takes to sail you home."

"I think there are pieces of me you've never seen."

"Driving in my Saab, on my way to Ireland."

"Years go by Will I still be waiting For somebody else to understand Years go by If I'm stripped of my beauty And the orange clouds Raining in head Years go by Will I choke on my tears Till finally there is nothing left One more casualty You know we're too easy Easy Easy"

"So you found a girl who thinks really deep thoughts. What's so amazing about really deep thoughts? Boy, you'd best pray that I bleed real soon -- How's that thought for you?"

"So you can make me cum; that doesn't make you Jesus."

"Look, I'm standing naked before you; Don't you want more than my sex? I can scream as loud as your last one, But I can't claim innocence."

"So if I die today, I'll be the happy phantom, And I'll go chasing the nuns out in the yard, ...And the atrocities of school I can forgive: The happy phantom has no right to bitch."

"God, sometimes you just don't come through. Do you need a woman to look after you?"

"I found the secret to life; I'm okay when everything is not okay"

"It was me And a gun And a manOn my back But I haven't seen Barbados so I must get out of this"

"I've got a cat named Easter; he says, 'Will you ever learn? You're just an empty cage, girl, if you kill the bird.'"

"Got enough guilt to start my own religion."

"Just what God needs: one more victim. Why do we crucify ourselves?"

"An angel's face is tricky to wear constantly."

"You could taste heaven perfectly."

"And I rode along side Till you lost me there In the open road And I rode along side Till the honey spread Itself so thin For me to break your bread For me to take your word I had to steal it."