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.

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

The whole system of society tells you what to do.

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

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

You're the first, the last, and my everything and the answer to all my dreams. You're my sun, my moon, my guiding star, my kind of wonderful, that's what you are

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