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

The words I use too often are X-rated, something an old man like me shouldn't be talking about anyway.

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.

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.

I think a lot of people really have religious overtones of having come from somewhere. I mean, even the whole concept of religion is kind of alien.

Think! It ain't illegal 'yet.'

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