If you enjoy the fragrance of a rose, you must accept the thorns which it bears.

I influence people, hopefully on the positive side.

I always keep my head down, working, doing things, moving forward. That's what I've done all my life. Then you stop and realize what you've done.

I don't sit back and count up what I've done. There's just always something else to do. There's always a challenge ahead.

I love soul. But I love a tune that has some meat in it. Something I could hang my hat on. Because music is universal.

Know the business, learn the business, own something.

Don't slip into the traps, and don't forget about your 'hood, the kids in the 'hood. Remember, you're disposable, so take advantage while you can.

Religious beliefs are sacred to people, and at all times should be respected and honoured.

There is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry toward religious beliefs... begins.

Self-expression is always a right, but its still not there to be abused.

When my agent told me he had a voice-over job I thought it was a Disney thing.

To be an artist was to have failure as your constant bedfellow.

If you believe, you can achieve the set-goal.

Show me a liar and I will show thee a thief.

My parents are Irish, my grandparents are Irish, my great-grandparents are Irish. I was born in England; my blood is Irish.

I've only had two rules. Do all you can and do it the best you can. It's the only way you ever get that feeling of accomplishing something.

Thoughts are sending out that magnetic signal that is drawing the parallel back to you

Most man only care for science so far as they get a living by it, and that they worship even error when it affords them a subsistence.

Guys like Otis Blackwell and Bobby Darin, and all the guys who were writing songs for Elvis at the time, just hanging around, writing songs, talking about music.

You don't pick dance. Dance picks you.

Sometimes corruption is slowed by shedding light into what was previously shadowed.