Everyone to me has to pick a subject to talk about in music if you're going to be a writer.
I'll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.
One preacher turned me on, another turned me off.
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.
I woke up when I was 14 and went to speak to my mother and scared us both to death.
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.