I'll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.

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.

If you were a young kid, 19, 20 years old who has two children and a third one on the way and refuses to leave them. A kid who was on welfare, because he refused to steal anybody's property or take anybody's money. You found life a lot tougher.

The cops picked me up for attempted murder. I can still see the detectives, licking their chops. Thought they had me. Two weeks later, the cat came out of a coma and told the truth. I was innocent.

As a boy, I believed freedom for America meant freedom for me. There was a time I believed every word spoken.

We are all gods, all forces of nature. We can destroy, we can build. We are like oceans and like fires.

I'm never gonna quit, cause quitting' just ain't my schtick.