When you go on a stage - or even in a café or a room - and you play it's all happening right then and there: the exchange, the art, the communication. Performance is in the moment.

Playing rock 'n' roll music, it's going to be integrated, but being black you didn't want to go into some neighborhood where you weren't wanted.

Fear breeds a desire for simplicity. Good and evil. Right and wrong. Chains of command.

When the gates of mockery and abuse is opened, the heart becomes a shock absorber

Whoever said diamonds were a girl's best friend sure hasn't read a good book.

The wife of a careless man is almost a widow.

The business of popularizing crime is how we expose the faults in our justice system. It's how we expose police misconduct.

You use a different part of your heart with girls.

You'll see. She can be nice sometimes.

What better can parents and children give to each other than respectful, understanding attention.

I wouldn't mind starting to ride some more if I had a really good horse to just work a little bit with every day.

Look for 3 things in a person. Intelligence, Energy, & Integrity. If they don't have the last one, don't even bother with the first two.