Mama tried to save us from the streets, but the streets were too strong.

There's people making babies to my music. That's nice.

When I commit, I commit with my whole heart, my whole being. I know the Bible like the back of my hand.

No one could understand the bond between me and my brother. I struggled to understand the forces that drove his soul in one direction and mine in another.

I'm very happy with this new record. It's dealing with different aspects of love-it's me making a statement about people doing something with their lives. It is about caring for others.

The whole system of society tells you what to do.

I went to jail at 16 for stealing tires off Cadillacs. When I got out I said, Never again.

One preacher turned me on, another turned me off.

When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy.

As a boy, I believed freedom for America meant freedom for me. There was a time I believed every word spoken.

I kept my babies fed. I could have dumped them, but I didn't. I decided that whatever trip I was on, they were going with me. You're looking at a real daddy.

Disco deserved a better name, a beautiful name because it was a beautiful art form. It made the consumer beautiful. The consumer was the star.

I quit high school on my birthday. It was my senior year and I didn't see the point. This was 1962, and I was ready to make music.

I'll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.

Mama tried to save us from the streets, but the streets were too strong.

We were ready to launch Barry White, but the record company wouldn't put it out. Said it wouldn't sell.

Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as strong.

The cops picked me up for attempted murder. I can still see the detectives, licking their chops. Thought they had me. Two weeks later, the cat came out of a coma and told the truth. I was innocent.

I've always loved War's Low Rider and Sly Stone's Thank You, and I just wanted to put my take on them.

I try to tell a story musically in a song.

People are always looking for me to be a freak, weird.

Elton John's opinion turned the label's opinion around, all in a day.

We forget that this music, music made by my brothers and sisters, is still a baby. It's just beginning. When I think of the possibilities, it makes me smile.

I don't know if it's my music, my lyrics, my sound, and knowing the music business the way I do-all I can say is, my career has lasted way longer than I expected.

Disco deserved a better name a beautiful name because it was a beautiful art form. It made the consumer beautiful. The consumer was the star.

Most writers flinch at the thought of being completely honest about themselves. So absolute honesty is what marks the true modern.

I've seen my own kids go through their own ups and downs, and as a mother, you want to make it better.

We all have insecurities, and the thing that makes them crippling is that we all have the ability to blow them up into such huge issues in our minds, that we might as well have a facial deformity. It keeps us from really going out there and living our lives, and forgetting about hating yourself and just experiencing the world around you.

Contrary to popular belief, I eat all types of food. Fried food is my least favorite.

It gives one hope, this great strength of Africa.

I had never been in a supermarket before coming to America. At home, my parents wouldn't let me open the refrigerator, because they worried I'd damage the door by opening it too many times.

I am quite miserable because I'm never satisfied with what I've got. You're always looking for that next high, and that is what I would define as happiness.

Freedom of navigation through international waterways is critical to the international community and to nations in the region, including Iran.

Most anyplace one lives is essentially dangerous. There are floods in the Midwest, and tornadoes. There are hurricanes along the Gulf. In New York, you get mugged.

On Hillary Clinton's side, she believes she's unaccountable to the American people. She favors these old ideas about government, these - these centralized, top down solutions from Washington that keep insiders in the know and give them influence, but regular Americans have no voice.

Whether we're Democrats or Republicans or independents, we have to learn to hang together or we're gonna hang separately.

There's so much pressure on kids to perform and to be the best they can be, and particularly with boys: boys who are the gifted ones get loaded with an awful lot of expectation and self-expectation, and that's really hard for an 18 year old.

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

You know when Jerry Ford gets the best joke, you know you're in trouble.

A goal without a plan is just a wish.

When does money run out of time? The countdown begins when investable assets pose too much risk for too little return; when lenders desert credit markets for other alternatives such as cash or real assets.

It is an excellent rule to be observed in all disputes, that men should give soft words and hard arguments; that they should not so much strive to vex as to convince each other.

Sometimes I feel weird about time. Sometimes I feel that it doesn't go in the order we perceive it. There are... repetitions that maybe we decide not to notice because it is simpler. I like to pick up on those moments.

Blues is a natural fact is something that a fellow lives. If you dont live it you dont have it. Young people have forgotten to cry the blues. Now they talk and get lawyers and things.

Hang 'em first, try 'em later.

I call it sacred geometry. When everything's just right and it feels really balanced, so that when it unfolds to the next part, you feel totally familiar and at ease within the song.

As a comedian, you have everything working against you.

The Western is as American as a film can get - there's the discovery of a frontier, the element of a showdown, revenge, and determining the best gunman. There's a certain masculinity to the Western that really appealed to me, and I've always wanted to do a Western in Hollywood.

I never wanted to be the great guy or the colorful guy or the interesting guy. I wanted to be the guy who won titles.