One preacher turned me on, another turned me off.

The women used the music to get their men to relate to them better: "talk to me, tell me what's on your mind." Men used the music to get the girls in the mood to make love. So either way you had it, Barry White is the one artist who actually was in your bedroom with you at your most sacred, sensuous moment of your life.

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.

When a man's making love, the last thing he thinks about is war.

I woke up when I was 14 and went to speak to my mother and scared us both to death.

I woke up one morning, went downstairs, said 'Good morning' to my mother and nearly scared both of us to death.'