It's so glamorous, you have to see it." (describing the $92 million Rock & Roll Hall of Fame)
My faith always has been and always will be important to me.
R-E-S-P-E-C-T, find out what it means to me.
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.
I sing to the realists; people who accept it like it is.
I love producing, writing. I rarely write with other writers unless I have a real great respect for them. Like Burt Bacharach, or Carole Sager, or Stevie Wonder. Somebody like Smokey - like that. Otherwise, I choose to write alone.