It's the easiest way to stay in the game: By helping the younger kids, they're gonna preach for you.

Whoever controls the flow of information dictates our perceptions and perspectives; whoever controls the news shapes our destiny.

My ability has always been to walk out on the stage and see the audience and figure out what they wanna hear.

I was at the Apollo Theater all the time, skipping school, and I worked in a barbershop. That's how I started with doo-wop. Now I've come full circle. I did all kinds of music. I used to work on Broadway and Tin Pan Alley.

Just gimme some stage. I'll make my own way once I get there.

Look both ways before you cross my mind.

If you got a booty, you're going to dance to disco, funk, you know, whatever's going on. Funk is going to be involved in it.