New York is the financial capital of the world. Everything moves so fast, and the music is fast, and some of it is for money.

True power is the power to empower others.

Our visual and musical artists have no incentive to be educated. So what we get is a bunch of uneducated artists inspiring misinformation, miseducation and illiteracy.

I don't think that we should look to celebrities to solve problems that are on our end of the street.

Real artists offer authenticity, not just money.

There's a duty and an obligation to community that we must teach our children to honor no matter how far they go. Life is like baseball: You only score when you leave home and return home.

When I think about a Chicago sound, I think about the Great Migration from the South. Many of Chicago's black artists are from Mississippi, Arkansas, and with them was brought blues and gospel music.

There's an economy of violence. It's sexy. It's being exploited.

He (Jesus) gave up his life not because of the so-called sins of humanity, but because he was too adamant to give in to orthodox monstrosity.

Those words make a mockery of our battle. Our fight showed me the power of the human will and the possibilities held by the future

A harbor even if it is a little harbor is a good thing.... It takes something from the world and has something to give in return.

Almost every single commercial on television for shampoo, sports shoes, drinks, food, clothes, perfume, cars, etc., is a short fairy tale, for they are given magical qualities.

I get much more respect, as befits my age. And I have nothing to complain about.

Most of all I like to sing my heart out to lyrics that really speak to people.

Go for the moon. If you don't get it, you'll still be heading for a star. Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of the creative effort.

The material of thought re-acts upon the thought itself.

Violence begets violence, you know. And you can't kill off all the violent people or all the murderers. We'd have to kill off the government.

We would like only, for once, to get to where we are already.