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

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.

Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as strong.

We forget that this music, music made by my brothers and sisters, is still a baby. It's just beginning. When I think of the possibilities, it makes me smile.

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

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

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.