You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation.

Singing songs like 'The Man I Love' or 'Porgy' is no more work than sitting down and eating Chinese roast duck, and I love roast duck.

Don't threaten me with love, baby. Let's just go walking in the rain.

All dope can do for you is kill you... the long hard way. And it can kill the people you love right along with you.

Love is like a faucet, it turns off and on.

Dope never helped anybody sing better or play music better or do anything better. All dope can do for you is kill you - and kill you the long, slow, hard way.

I've been told that nobody sings the word 'hunger' like I do.