When a man's making love, the last thing he thinks about is war.

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.

All I had was the will and the love for music. I couldn't read music or write it. No connections, no car, no money, no bankroll, no clothes, no nothing.

I try to tell a story musically in a song.

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

Take it off, baby, take it all off. I want you the way you came into the world.

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