You've got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body's sermon on how to behave.

If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling. No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.

Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what's more than enough.

The difficult I'll do right now. The impossible will take a little while.

You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation.

I don't think I'm singing. I feel like I'm playing a horn...What comes out is what I feel.

Don't threaten me with love, baby. Let's just go walking in the rain.

I never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working when I was six years old.

Dope never helped anybody sing better or play music better or do anything better. All dope can do for you is kill you - and kill you the long, slow, hard way.

I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession. If you can, then it ain't music, it's close order drill, or exercise or yodeling or something, not music.

People don't understand the kind of fight it takes to record what you want to record the way you want to record it.

Want to do something noble and courageous while you're on this Earth treat the mentally ill like they have some worth.

I can hear the tick tick tick in my head: A tripwire ready to explode in fury. And then, in my mind, I start to count down from ten…any moment now.

No matter what happens on the field, getting an education makes you a winner.

He was raised without a proper diagnosis.

The NBA wasn't a big deal at that time, so it wasn't really in my career plans.

If there is no cure, you must endure.

Once you wake up and smell the coffee, it's hard to go back to sleep.

To watch your home change in front of you is surprising. But at the same time, going someplace like Mississippi, makes me appreciate even this.

Talk in order that I may see you.

I feel like Ive got feet firmly in different camps. Between the right of gun ownership and public safety.