The secret was to just be cool, stay in God's graces, and work it out.

If one of us is chained, none of us are free...

I didn't do the marching down the streets, jumping in front of the lines and holding hands... that wasn't me.

I don't need to make a fortune, I need to survive.

Leonard Chess passed, and that was the end of the Chess label for that time.

Sometimes its controversy, but we all have our choices that we make.

I was signed to MGM. I was in Vegas for sixteen weeks at the Sands Hotel.

Apollo Records signed me for my gospel ability.

Girls were coming from every angle. I couldn't love them all. But I tried.

As you grow older, you learn to understand life a little better.

Im still amazed people remembered and didnt give up on me.

At first, I felt proud when someone said 'Your work looks like a man did it.' Then I realized that was stupid

I love what I do. If I have the opportunity to do what I do with people I admire, it's 10 times better.

I just got my phone back yesterday. My mom had it for two days. I was supposed to read a book and I really wanted to play Call Of Duty.

The typical presidential staff resents the vice-president even more than they do the first lady.

I believe that the basic attribute of mankind is to look after each other

Virtue hath no tongue to check vice's pride.

I love it when ugliness is beautiful. I love character flaws.

I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.

What you're seeking is seeking you.

Thank God kids love following an artist. When you get a group who pop, it's the best thing in the world.