I don't like rap that you can't understand. The youth is so quick and alert.

The true beauty of music is that it connects people. It carries a message, and we, the musicians, are the messengers.

The true beauty of music is that it connects people.

I'd definitely love to play in Nashville again. That would be really good.

DJs and people in the street know what they like.

I was being an artist, being sensitive and technical as artists are. I'm sure Leonardo Da Vinci did that. Artists don't always feel the same as others feel about their work.

A lot of the hip hop artists don't write music. They write words.

Soul has no musical geographical or racial boundaries.

I've been sampled so much and I'm glad it's happened, it's a great compliment.

I still look good. I'm trippin', but people tell me that all the time. So check it out, I'm 63, and still kicking. I've been putting records out every year.

I don't trip on that much. I just like to enjoy life and be happy.

Nobody knows what is life and still alive

Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies.

Some persons are so devotional they have not one bit of true religion in them.

Once bliss becomes normal it's no longer bliss, it's just peace.

Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs ...and then cackles.

we love what we love and who we love who we love and why we love why we love and find a falling shoelace knotted and strung between the fingers of strangers

Just write the best you can about the things that concern you most. I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.

The best way to compel weak-minded people to adopt our opinion, is to frighten them from all others, by magnifying their danger.

When God blesses you, don't let no devil in hell move you out of your place of blessing!

Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.