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

I quit high school on my birthday. It was my senior year and I didn't see the point. This was 1962, and I was ready to make music.

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

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

The whole system of society tells you what to do.

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.

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.