One thing I know about Willie Hutch: my homie, [Big] Jerm, listens to nothing but Soul music, so he put me on to all this Soul music back in the day.

People change and things go wrong but just remember life goes on.

No matter where life takes me, you'll find me with a smile. Presumed to be happy, always laughing like a child. I never thought life could be this sweet! It's got me cheesing from cheek to cheek!

Your life's short, don't ever question the length / It's cool to cry, don't ever question your strength.

I be goofy, kinda funny. Acting stupid but they love me.

Stand by those who stand by you.

They say you waste time asleep, but I'm just trying to dream.

No matter where life takes me. Find me with a smile.

If you didn’t make mistakes you wouldn't get far.

If life a joke then I’m waiting for the punch. You all about the beef but me, I’m bout the bun.

I ain’t no hipster, but girl I can make your hips stir.

My flute, M. Poirot, is my oldest companion. When everything else fails, music remains.

Marry someone who flatters you. Because I've written 80 books since 'War Horse' but when my wife reads one, all she says is, 'It's quite good, but it's not as good as 'War Horse, ' is it?'

As far as unwed mothers on welfare are concerned, it seems to me that they must be capable of some other form of labor.

I get a sentence, an idea, an image, and I start. I don't know anything beyond it. I follow it.

Houses are fundamental metaphors for self, world, permeability, transition, interiority, exteriority, multiplicity, and the power to move from one state of being to another.

If you are watching fanatically over the morality of your children you may yourself be not completely in order.

I have always been quite good at falling in love, but I don't pretend to know anything about literal happily ever afters.

History is neither written nor made without love or hate.

I didn't read this book--I inhaled it. This a terrific new take on a great old rock n roll story, a clash of the musical titans.

Without the balancing context of everyday life, all you have is the news, and news by its nature is generally bad.