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

One preacher turned me on, another turned me off.

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

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.

Disco deserved a better name, a beautiful name because it was a beautiful art form. It made the consumer beautiful. The consumer was the star.

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.

When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy.