May was young and beautiful, we were legally married, but she was caught in the prison of my skin.

The success of the Rat Pack or the Clan was due to the camaraderie, the three guys who work together and kid each other and love each other.

You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear.

I bought a house in the Hollywood Hills and brought my grandmother from Harlem to live in it with me.

What have I got? No looks, no money, no education. Just talent.

You have to be able to look back at your life and say, "Yeah, that was fun."

If you want to be the best, baby, you've got to work harder than anybody else.

My mother was born in San Juan. So I'm Puerto Rican, Jewish, colored and married to a white woman. When I move into a neighborhood, people start running four ways at the same time.

I saw that my image was changing or fading. One of the reasons for taking a break from clubs was to be missed-not forgotten.

Wishing, hoping and regretting are the most common and dangerous tactics for evading the present.

If you want to get known as a singer you hire five sexy chicks and let them fight over you onstage and for the cameras. That's publicity, man.

Different people are different!

She borrowed in harmony and paid back in war

I don't correct her to let her know her backdoor wisdom yanks me deep into another country, where water runs uphill.

May the God of your choice bless and keep you. I respect Him as long as He does not circumcise me anymore.

I do not believe in Belief.

I was not sympathetic to the assumption that criminals had radically different motivations from everyone else.

Robert Redford used to be such a handsome man and now look at him: everything has dropped, expanded and turned a funny color.

When you find any great project - if it's onstage or it's a movie or a television show or whatever it might be, if it's wonderful, then that sort of transcends what the medium is.

As musicians, and as people who sell material for people to hear and absorb, it's important that we use that voice wisely.

Because women and girls are not valued equally as human beings, they are treated as less than such. Female genital mutilation is one example of this that has to be stopped.