I love to sing. It's just a natural thing for me.

If you disrespect everybody that you run into, how in the world do you think everybody's supposed to respect you?

My faith always has been and always will be important to me.

Music changes, and I'm gonna change right along with it.

...the people at large absolutely gave James Brown respect. He was an original like a Rembrandt or a Picasso

You're a no good heartbreaker, you're a liar, and you're a cheat. I don't know why I let you do these things to me.

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.