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.

Think! It ain't illegal 'yet.'

I worked in a barbershop. I used to make the waves in the brother's hair, you know? Like, Nat King Cole, Sugar Ray Robinson.

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

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

Funk 'em, just to see the look on their face.

Style is whatever you want to do, if you can do it with confidence.