I don't really play overseas stuff. I'm a bit of a dinosaur in that way. You gonna improve on a Les Paul or Fender Stratocaster? Those are perfect designs, and there is nothing to add really.

Curiosity pulls people into the scam.

Recording an album and doing it live are like two different animals. There are some people that are great singers live, horrible in the studio.

If you hear Bing Crosby trying to swing, it doesn't work. He swings like a rusty gate.

If you get married, you become vulnerable.

I think Donald Trump is gonna do great. Because I've worked with him and known him a long time. He's a guy who is not programmed to fail.

I hate to say Napster kind of killed our business, but what can I tell ya?

No one sells records anymore. It's all about touring. It's all greatest hits records and box sets. And even those don't sell. People just go online.

I've been a musician for 52 years professionally. I do it because, for me, I love it.

Donald Trump is a guy that's gets stuff done. If he says he's gonna do something, he does it. He doesn't worry about it. He's got thick skin. He's gonna do it. He's gonna bring jobs back.

Donald Trump is an "America first" guy. He said, "We protect everyone else's borders but our own."

You're very naive and innocent, and don't understand a lot of things yet.

A principle is not merely a fundamental truth, but principles must serve as the very first source of every decision we make along the road to success.

The challenge throughout has been to tell what I view as the truth about racism without causing disabling despair.

My philosophy is that, in life, you have to want something. If you just say "la-la-la" and go through life without a goal, nothing will happen.

"Disappear where?" You know what they say: curiosity killed the mutant bird kid. But I couldn't help myself.

The boom squanders through malinvestment scarce factors of production and reduces the stock available through overconsumption; its alleged blessings are paid for by impoverishment.

I don't pick stuff up, I knock stuff down!

Hip-hop can be a very closed-off community. Sometimes these barriers are demographic but it can be musical, too.

Guessing isn't knowing.