I didn't mind working in the clubs, but I resented it being a club where pimps hang out. Because the music that I create is of a higher intellect than that. It not only encompasses pimps, but whores, ballplayers, executives... everybody.

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

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.

No one could understand the bond between me and my brother. I struggled to understand the forces that drove his soul in one direction and mine in another.

One preacher turned me on, another turned me off.

I didn't mind working in the clubs, but I resented it being a club where pimps hang out. Because the music that I create is of a higher intellect than that. It not only encompasses pimps, but whores, ballplayers, executives... everybody.

I went to jail at 16 for stealing tires off Cadillacs. When I got out I said, Never again.