So I became a producer because I knew one of the reasons was they didn't do them the way I thought was right.

Nobody heard records of you playing whatever the melody was on those low strings. It worked out good, you know, about 25 or 26 million records later. I guess it worked out alright.

People think I'm crazy because I travel too much, but I haven't been doing any of that lately because I got a little sick this year and I've tried to take care of it.

There's nothing worse, I guess, than being black in an all-white church or being southern and being a liberal.

Sweden was very nice. I did a lot of television. I wrote, directed and was in a lot of television there.

Oh no, I'm not a historian or anything like that.

So anyway, I really enjoyed the European audiences.

I just did one movie and there was no career for me, anyway.

You may look normal like everyone else, but you're not. Not on the inside.

We still tell each other that we are lucky to be alive, when our being alive has almost nothing to do with luck, but with geography, pigmentation, and international exchange rates.

Principles become modified in practise by facts.

I wouldn't say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.

Every secret we confide in another person can be a burden to them

I care more about an agenda than story and character.

Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen

It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.

And it's not a finger-pointing issue to me; I take as much responsibility as I can. It was more just me not really knowing what I wanted to do and how to get it done.