One preacher turned me on, another turned me off.

Blacks own so little of the music business, it's pathetic. But I see that changing soon. Black artists, black businessmen and women will unite.

I'm so thankful that your mine, your sweetness is my weakness.

Disco deserved a better name, a beautiful name because it was a beautiful art form. It made the consumer beautiful. The consumer was the star.

In my day, we didn't have the cocaine, so we went out and knocked somebody over the head and took the money. But today, all this cocaine and crack, it doesn't give kids a chance.

Elton John's opinion turned the label's opinion around, all in a day.

People are always looking for me to be a freak, weird.