And I know I know I know I know — Bill Withers

"Aint no sunshine when shes gone Its not warm when shes away Aint no sunshine when shes gone And shes always gone too long Anytime shes goes away"

"Sometimes in our lives we all have pain We all have sorrow But if we are wise We know that theres always tomorrow."

"Lean on me, when youre not strong And Ill be your friend Ill help you carry on For it wont be long Til Im gonna need Somebody to lean on."

"I grew up in the age of Barbra Streisand, Aretha Franklin, Nancy Wilson … It was a time where a fat, ugly broad that could sing had value. Now everything is about image. It’s not poetry. This just isn’t my time."

"What few songs I wrote during my brief career, there ain’t a genre that somebody didn’t record them in. I’m not a virtuoso, but I was able to write songs that people could identify with. I don’t think I’ve done bad for a guy from Slab Fork, West Virginia."

"My first goal was, I didn’t want to be a cook or a steward … So I went to aircraft-mechanic school. I still had to prove to people that thought I was genetically inferior that I wasn’t too stupid to drain the oil out of an airplane."