Music, to me, is mankind's greatest possible achievement because look at all the good it does.

I didn't want to work at Pizza Hut and I didn't want to join the Army. So I just decided to go out and be awesome.

Retirement in another country is your body is too racked with pain and your hands are too arthritic from the life in the rice patty fields, so you can't work anymore.

I plan to be a part of Haiti's reconstruction and future.

I thought I was gonna be in the minimum-wage working world all my life.

I don't wish to be anything more or less than what I am. If this is how it is, then so be it.

I like it better that people aren't throwing stuff at my face and trying to fight me on stage. Like in the '80s, it was just aggravating all the time... I have scars from cigars and cigarettes on me, Bic pens, burns from cigarette lighters, all that.