There's a time when people give their words to each other it has to mean something. I'm a street cat. I've belonged in gangs and when you had a partner, you went down with your partner whether you won the fight or lost it. You went down together.

Everyone to me has to pick a subject to talk about in music if you're going to be a writer.

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

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

As a boy, I believed freedom for America meant freedom for me. There was a time I believed every word spoken.

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

When I commit, I commit with my whole heart, my whole being. I know the Bible like the back of my hand.