I didn't need to borrow money from the record company, because if I had my own publishing company, and I had my own writers, I'd have enough to get and do whatever I wanted to do.

If one of us is chained, none of us are free...

I didn't do the marching down the streets, jumping in front of the lines and holding hands... that wasn't me.

I don't need to make a fortune, I need to survive.

Leonard Chess passed, and that was the end of the Chess label for that time.

Sometimes its controversy, but we all have our choices that we make.

I was signed to MGM. I was in Vegas for sixteen weeks at the Sands Hotel.

The secret was to just be cool, stay in God's graces, and work it out.

Apollo Records signed me for my gospel ability.

Girls were coming from every angle. I couldn't love them all. But I tried.

As you grow older, you learn to understand life a little better.

Until you raise the bar on yourself people will treat you as a commodity

If you look at the history of the U.S., we were an empire long before we were a nation.

Modern life cannot be constructed on . . . physically strenuous principles. A great deal of work is sedentary, and most manual work exercises only a few specialized muscles.

I'd like to see a more aggressive attitude on the part of the United States. That doesn't mean launching an immediate preventive war.

I have not suggested there's a connection between Iraq and 9/11, but there's clearly an established Iraqi track record with terror.

Sometimes you can't see the wood for the trees as an artist.

You can't be a writer and have nothing to write about. You have to have life experiences.

In a land of freedom we are held hostage by the tyranny of political correctness.

The whole discord of this world consists in discords.

When it comes to hang the capitalists they will compete with each other to sell us the rope at a lower price.