Curtis Mayfield

“Painless preaching is as good a term as any for what we do.”

“As a kid, sometimes you have nobody to turn to. I could always go back to some of the sermons and talk to myself in a righteous manner and put that in a song.”

“My fights and arguments, even with God, went down on paper.”

“Maybe the words that I say is just another way to pray.”

“Our purpose is to educate as well as to entertain.”

“This accident, or incident, happened in the most secure place I could have felt I was in: Walking onstage with my guitar, you know?”

“With all respect, I'm sure that we have enough preachers in the world. Through my way of writing, I was capable of being able to say these things and yet not make a person feel as though they're being preached at.”