If a song's about something I've experienced or that could've happened to me it's good. But if it's alien to me, I couldn't lend anything to it. Because that's what soul is all about.

Better friends than lovers. Sugar can't you see? You need you and I really need me.

I don't feel one's personal medical condition is everybody's business. It just isn't something you advertise, and it's not open to discussion.

Soul is a constant. It's cultural. It's always going to be there, in different flavors and degrees.

We all require and want respect, man or woman, black or white. It's our basic human right.

I think the hardest thing is losing weight. That's the hardest thing more than anything else.

The milk of kindness flows through my body, I shall follow Jesus to the Taco Bell and give thanks.