Blacks own so little of the music business, it's pathetic. But I see that changing soon. Black artists, black businessmen and women will unite.

I went to jail at 16 for stealing tires off Cadillacs. When I got out I said, Never again.

We are all gods, all forces of nature. We can destroy, we can build. We are like oceans and like fires.

If you were a young kid, 19, 20 years old who has two children and a third one on the way and refuses to leave them. A kid who was on welfare, because he refused to steal anybody's property or take anybody's money. You found life a lot tougher.

I kept my babies fed. I could have dumped them, but I didn't. I decided that whatever trip I was on, they were going with me. You're looking at a real daddy.

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

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