I've always loved War's Low Rider and Sly Stone's Thank You, and I just wanted to put my take on them.

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

I'm very happy with this new record. It's dealing with different aspects of love-it's me making a statement about people doing something with their lives. It is about caring for others.

I never learned to read or write music. Never wanted to fool with scales. That was boring, forced. The music I heard was free - flowing.

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.

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

Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as strong.