I seen her with the milkman, riding down the street. When you're through with my baby, milkman, send her home to me.

Most of my songs are about insensitivity of some kind.

If we'd had another carefree 70s, I'd have been dead. It was a little too carefree, you know? I don't know how carefree they were for me, I think I was worried then, I can't remember what about.

But if you're doing something, show up everyday, and something good might happen - it's not going to happen if you don't show up.

I'm pretty proud of my film music in general.

God bless the potholes on Memory Lane.

I like science - geography, meteorology, cosmology.

You've got troubles, I've got 'em too. There isn't anything I wouldn't do for you. We'll stick together to see it through cause you've got a friend in me.

People become who they are. Even Beethoven became Beethoven.

You keep wondering whether people will see that Barack Obama is a liar and not very bright.

Short people got no reason to live.

I did the wrong thing, and I lost him for

Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.

No man was ever eloquent by trying to be eloquent, but only by being so.

I believe that love expands. As you give love out, it's received and reciprocated and it grows. That's the beauty of it.

The Moon is essentially gray - no color - looks like plaster of paris - soft of gray sand.

Sometimes the stereotypes that a lot of people have are of black men in jail or who don't take care of their kids, so I think it's always important to have that.

As the sea-crab swimmeth always against the stream, so doth wit always against wisdom.

Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.

I don't think of myself as making art. I do what I do because I want to, because painting is the best way I've found to get along with myself.

Love is like a reptile, you cut off its tail and it grows another one." Kiss Me Judas