The poets down here don't write nothin' at all, they just stand back and let it all be.
A man armed with a rhyming dictionary is a dangerous man.
Mister, I ain't a boy, no I'm a man, and i believe in a promised land.
At the end of every hard day, people find some reason to believe.
I played in front of every conceivable audience you could face: an all-black audience, all-white, firemen's fairs, policemen's balls, in front of supermarkets, bar mitzvahs, weddings, drive-in theaters. I'd seen it all before I ever walked into a recording studio.
When I first started in rock, I had a big guy's audience for my early records. I had a very straight image, particularly through the mid '80s.