My first wife was a theater person.

Theres two kinds of music: black soul music, and the white imitation thereof.

It is a great life, this life of music.

There's been so much bad blood between the Kurds and the Turks.

The first time I heard Clyde McPhatter singing with the Dominoes at the Apollo I just fell off my chair

Whenever a songwriter writes a big hit, then the next 20 songs they write - no matter how bad they are - get recorded.

I did a little bit to raise the dignity and recognition of the greatness of African-American music.

The songwriters whom we think of being the greatest songwriters usually write one hit and six or seven flops.

The all-time greatest Atlantic group - The Drifters

I used to drink a bottle of vodka a day, every day, for about 40 years and it never occurred to me it'd kill me. If I'd have continued it might have killed me. My doctor said I should stick to wine.

My father believed very strongly in Ataturk. Ataturk was a very powerful man and a man of great vision.

And while I may get hurt, disappointed, or frustrated […], my foundation doesn’t have to change.

If you have to criticize, do it with deep understanding and love.

Winston Churchill - fifty per cent genius, fifty per cent bloody fool.

It looks easy, like surfing, but surfing is hard too.

When I wake up at 5 in the morning is it just to jog? Definitely not, I give it all of my efforts.

Andrew hated to see her humiliated and pathetic like this; but he half hated her too for landing herself in it, when any idiot could have seen.

The freedom to create is somehow linked with facility of access to those obscure regions below the conscious mind.

The weight comes off, you know? If you stop with the bread and the pie, it really does. It really works.

Switchin' speeds like Bruce Lee ridin' up Fuji in a movie.

The movie cheerfully offends all civilized notions of taste, decorum, manners and hygiene... The movie is vulgar? Vulgarity is when we don't laugh. When we laugh, it's merely human nature.