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.

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.

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.

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

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.

I hope that I am a good man … it would be enough.

The mystery of grace is the power of God.

Truth in her dress finds facts too tight. In fiction she moves with ease.

We love our dear ones deeply and miss them when they leave us. But we know that the bond of love is greater than death.

There's no greater feeling than winning a race.

Be careful, boy. In some tales, the hero gets eaten by the monster after all .

We hope that eventually there would be an occasion which I can personally prove that game music can in fact impress many different people and move them.

Having not had a chance to review the tape and obviously not been in the tunnel, I will take the Wenger amendment on this one for now.

If somebody asks, "What is a dance?" how can you define it? But you can dance and you can know the inner feel of it.

This is a universe that does not favor the timid.