As a boy, I believed freedom for America meant freedom for me. There was a time I believed every word spoken.

You're the first, the last, and my everything and the answer to all my dreams. You're my sun, my moon, my guiding star, my kind of wonderful, that's what you are

There's people making babies to my music. That's nice.

I went to jail at 16 for stealing tires off Cadillacs. When I got out I said, Never again.

Disco deserved a better name, a beautiful name because it was a beautiful art form. It made the consumer beautiful. The consumer was the star.

I'm very happy with this new record. It's dealing with different aspects of love-it's me making a statement about people doing something with their lives. It is about caring for others.

The cops picked me up for attempted murder. I can still see the detectives, licking their chops. Thought they had me. Two weeks later, the cat came out of a coma and told the truth. I was innocent.

I quit high school on my birthday. It was my senior year and I didn't see the point. This was 1962, and I was ready to make music.

I kept my babies fed. I could have dumped them, but I didn't. I decided that whatever trip I was on, they were going with me. You're looking at a real daddy.

I'm never gonna quit, cause quitting' just ain't my schtick.

When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy.

Kirk Cousins is the future of the Washington Redskins.

There are no accidents so unlucky but the prudent may draw some advantage from them.

That's what love is. It's some power greater than you and me, that draws us to one special person

Hold those things that tell your history and protect them.

When I was very young I was the ugly duckling. I had a lot of complexes. My sister was wonderful and I was nothing.

It's unfortunate that women feel they have to resort to something sensational... All the videos I see now are sexy and raunchy. What's the point? I don't get it?

Dangerously well’— what an irony is this: it expresses precisely the doubleness, the paradox, of feeling ‘too well

I love to continue to challenge myself and put myself in situations that are slightly uncomfortable.

One day I actually took the list into the bathroom and I put it up against my face and looked in the mirror and I realized I had one of two choices, change the list or change myself.

I write songs so that people can make them into what it means to them as well.