The best part really is once I'm up on the stage.

People have the right to love who they love and nobody should have anything to say about it!

I was writing before I met Rick and actually I created the band before Rick Finch. Basically, the first album, I wrote. Who's to say what would've happened? Rick was very talented too.

We all need to accept everyone.

Everyone has the right to love and worship whoever and whatever they want to. It's nobody's business but theirs. We are not the ones to judge that.

I would hope that everyone likes my music.

My music was made with everyone in mind with no prejudice towards anyone.

Actually, we didn't tour that much back in the 70s because we had all these other artists under our hat. My touring was really limited. I tour more now than I did back then.

There are guys who want to be together, there are woman who want to be together, and there and men and women who want to be together.

Not only was it impossible to truly belong in America, but he didn't fit in here anymore either. He was a dweller of two lands, accepted by none.

It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief.

Hanging one scoundrel, it appears, does not deter the next. Well, what of it? The first one is at least disposed of.

Happiness is a garden walled with glass: there's no way in or out.

I was lucky enough not to face any required summer reading lists until I went to college. So I still think of summer as the best time to read for fun.

I'm a rule follower. But there is also a part of me, clearly, that doesn't follow them.

The old lady who said there must be a devil, else how could they make pictures that looked exactly like him, reasoned like a trained theologian - like a doctor of divinity.

Africa must revert to what it was before the imperialists divided it. These are artificial divisions which we, in our pan-African concept will seek to remove.

Theory is good for the intellect, but action is good for the soul. It's also good for your mental health, your physical health, and your pocketbook.

Politeness is one of those advantages which we never estimate rightly but by the inconvenience of its loss.