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.

Free your mind and your ass will follow

Why must I feel like that? Why must I chase the cat?

Look both ways before you cross my mind.

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

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.