There are a lot of new artists that I really dig and I think they really understand what R&B and Soul music is about.

I always believe when you got something to say, that's when you put something out.

Desire to dwell in a clean environment.

The ultimate relationship is within thyself, knowing that all other relationships are a projection or a reflection of our ability or inability to love.

I have yet to figure out whether it is I am that am crazy, or the world.

I love thinking, I love coming up with great ideas. I just get excited. Sometimes if I get a big idea, I'm just like a kid, like I've found a new toy.

Football is just a game. What matters is what you play for.

Not infrequently, we encounter copies of important human beings; and here, too, as in the case of paintings, most people prefer the copies to the originals.

A man of character in peace is a man of courage in war.

I feel that everyone has a right to be insane.

I say really stupid things sometimes. When I go back and watch some of my old interviews from when I was younger, I just cringe.

You may translate books of science exactly. ... The beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally written.