If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent.

I've leaned on God for so long. "Hey, God, you just gave me this gift, and I'm just going to go out there and sing." But I'm realizing how much larger and how expansive my gift becomes when I actually pay attention to it and try to practice and try to perfect it.

Find out what your gift is and nurture it.

People overestimate the Rolling Stones. I don't think the Stones areas good as people think. Obviously I think the Stones are a very good band.

I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.

My mother always told me that any talent is a gift of God and I always believed it. If I quit, I would just live in front of the television and get fat and die pretty soon.