The minute you think you're greater than the music, you're finished

The first job I got when I was in high school was working for a department store in New York. I worked in the stockroom. That's when I learned that I couldn't work for anyone else, because I was spoken to in a way that I wasn't spoken to at home.

I think dancing is one of the best things anyone can do for themselves. And it doesn't cost anything.

The minute you think you're greater than the music, you're finished

I'm of the mind that your private life is private and you don't need to put everything out there about yourself - but on there, I describe myself as a citizen of the world, a man of music.

I used to tell myself when I was much younger that I didn't want to wake up one day and be 32 years old and still playing records. It's just not going to happen. Well, the joke is on me, because I'm 56 years old now.

I refused to be disrespected. So, at 16, of course, I was a gentleman about it, but I told them and it cost me my job.