A singer's biographical film should have their music and their voice.

Theres two kinds of music: black soul music, and the white imitation thereof.

It is a great life, this life of music.

There's been so much bad blood between the Kurds and the Turks.

The first time I heard Clyde McPhatter singing with the Dominoes at the Apollo I just fell off my chair

Whenever a songwriter writes a big hit, then the next 20 songs they write - no matter how bad they are - get recorded.

I did a little bit to raise the dignity and recognition of the greatness of African-American music.

My first wife was a theater person.

The songwriters whom we think of being the greatest songwriters usually write one hit and six or seven flops.

The all-time greatest Atlantic group - The Drifters

I used to drink a bottle of vodka a day, every day, for about 40 years and it never occurred to me it'd kill me. If I'd have continued it might have killed me. My doctor said I should stick to wine.

I need not pause to explain that crime is not a disease. It is criminology that is a disease.

What if the only resolution you made was to love yourself more?

Self-realization is not the awareness that this world is a dream, that's a part of self-realization.

Write down the most important things you have to do tomorrow.

Being in the hearing world was more of a challenge than being in the Deaf world, because I had to learn how to write and communicate in a way that I hadn't experienced growing up.

I love pets, especially dogs.

When goodness is lost, it is replaced by morality.

Los Angeles, I don't like that town. Too decadent, and it's slimy.

God loves us completely. And He knew us at our worst before He ever began to love us at all.

He whose ranks are united in purpose will be victorious.