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

Actually I'm writing as best I can, in order to keep the momentum and the career there, but I want to live.

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

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

You know, your ears record. You might can sing a song once you hear it.