Quotes from Al Green

I was knocking on people's doors. I knocked on a white couple's door, and I told them, I says, 'Excuse me, but I've been born again.' The guy said, 'Hon, call security. There's a little black guy here talking about how he been born again. Call the police.'

Some people believe that fairness comes with obeying the rules. I'm one of those people.

There's more to hip-hop than just trying to make everything rhyme, and you find out in life that everything don't rhyme. The music they're cutting is musically fantastic.

People still come up to me and ask me to sign their records. That's right, records! Man, they don't even make records no more!

I have found people on both sides of the aisle, white and black, that'll give you the shirt off their back. And I've also found people that won't give you a piece of bread if you're starving to death.

I didn't have a mother; I had a mama. I measure other women by the stature of my mama.

No child wants to fail. Everyone wants to succeed.

'Al Green Explores Your Mind' is really kind of a very personal record for me.