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

One preacher turned me on, another turned me off.

I don't know if it's my music, my lyrics, my sound and knowing the music business the way I do - all I can say is, my career has lasted way longer than I expected.

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

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.

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.

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.