You can't sing about love unless you know about it.

I'm not much on gimmicks. I never have been because they don't last.

I'm used to hearing myself. My own voice.

When you're playing music, say for instance, you're playing a part of the band and you're looking at your music, your horn is down into the stand. This way, it's

I don't have perfect pitch, but I have relative pitch. I'm glad I don't have perfect pitch because perfect pitch can drive you crazy.

If you want to be a doctor, a lawyer you must go to college. But if you want to be a musician or such, study your craft. Study music.

I'm a firm believer and I think my religion is inside.

I just went to Harvard a little while, because I graduated from Armstrong High School in Washington and then I went up there but I didn't stay that long because I went into show business.

If you want to be a musician, study your craft. Study music.

When Byrd came out of there, he had written a lot things while he was in the hospital.

You know, times change and the elements change along with it. The elements of success. And my son's very successful. He's doing very well. And I have a younger daughter who sings.

People will come and go in your life and only few of them will become Immortal in your heart

You don't have to be like most people around you, because most people never become truly rich and wealthy.

It is just as foolish to complain that people are selfish and treacherous as it is to complain that the magnetic field does not increase unless the electric field has a curl. Both are laws of nature.

Sin? Sin is a delusional sickness spawned to peddle a delusional treatment.

The war against terrorism is terrorism.

Restorative justice says "No, the offense affected a relationship" and what you are seeking for is to restore the relationship, to heal the relationship.

Paleontologists do not have to search for famous "missing link" from which humans supposedly came, and current great apes. This link is simply the socialist - because he has both monkey genes.

The church didn't know what to do with Ray Charles or Al Green. And so they were kind of ostracized.

I am fundamentally an optimist.

The only exercise I get is walking to the betting office.