When I think about a Chicago sound, I think about the Great Migration from the South. Many of Chicago's black artists are from Mississippi, Arkansas, and with them was brought blues and gospel music.

True power is the power to empower others.

Our visual and musical artists have no incentive to be educated. So what we get is a bunch of uneducated artists inspiring misinformation, miseducation and illiteracy.

I don't think that we should look to celebrities to solve problems that are on our end of the street.

Real artists offer authenticity, not just money.

There's a duty and an obligation to community that we must teach our children to honor no matter how far they go. Life is like baseball: You only score when you leave home and return home.

New York is the financial capital of the world. Everything moves so fast, and the music is fast, and some of it is for money.

There's an economy of violence. It's sexy. It's being exploited.

Consider this a one-thousand horsepower divorce, sweetheart

Character is simply habit long enough continued.

When I drove for British teams... they called me The Tadpole because I was too small to be a frog.

Why can't God just defeat the devil and get rid of evil? It's the same reason the comic book character can't get rid of his nemesis; then there's no story.

I was always lucky that I've always had a gig, I'm fortunate in that way.

Be happy now, without reason - or you never will be at all.

All came from, and will goe to others.

I would have tested the furniture if they'd asked me.

To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity.

To consider oneself different from ordinary men is wrong, but it is right to hope that one will not remain like ordinary men.