Curiosity provoked me to lay a lot of our country stuff on our predominantly black audience and some of our black audience began whispering "who is that black hillbilly at the Cosmo?"

Curiosity provoked me to lay a lot of our country stuff on our predominantly black audience and some of our black audience began whispering "who is that black hillbilly at the Cosmo?"

You don't just go to the studio and say, 'I'm going to write a hit.' It becomes a hit when people like your compositions.

I have so many entities now as grow older you gain responsibilities, you know, real estate, and I like video, and you know I want to live a little you know, because time is passing, its not as long as it has been.

My music is simple stuff. Anybody can sit down, look at a set of symbols and produce sounds the music represents.

Don't let the same dog bite you twice.

Roll over Beethoven, tell Tchaikovsky the news.