Everyone felt like they knew Ray Charles and in a way they did, because he was embodied by his music.

My first wife was a theater person.

The first time I heard Clyde McPhatter singing with the Dominoes at the Apollo I just fell off my chair

There are still many great surviving talents: Stevie Winwood. Another great talent is Stevie Wonder. Another one is Eric Clapton. Another one is Phil Collins. Eminem, Kanye West I like all those people.

My father was a very religious person. And he prayed five times a day. And he did that throughout his relationship with Ataturk - at a time when it was very brave to do because Ataturk was cutting off the heads of the imams. And people thought that that was foolhardy of my father.

The all-time greatest Atlantic group - The Drifters

There's been so much bad blood between the Kurds and the Turks.