I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn't paint.

Music is music and I think music people are the delivers, the actors, when they put their music out they want to insert their character in it. So they call it such and such so you know how they live so to speak.

Up come a flat top, he was movin' up with me.

Prejudice doesn't make me mad. It just - I guess 'pisses me off' is the word.

All were artists, playing foolish, having fights and making love as if the rest of the world had no racial problems whatsoever.

A contract is an ask game, and if it asks for an hour, and I submit to an hour, then it's an hour. When I look at a contract, I look at the obligation - where, when, how long, the compensation. If I agree to it, that's the way it is. I have an obligation. They have an obligation.

Hail, hail rock and roll / Deliver me from the days of old.