Michael Jackson has a very good heart. He was crying when he was giving me the award, 'cause his mind went back over the early days.

In our advanced technological age, most people deny the possibility of miracles.... Miracles don't happen, we are told, because they contravene the laws of nature and worse, they sound religious! Yet we live and move in a sea of miracle.

Hair is the first thing. And teeth the second. Hair and teeth. A man got those two things he's got it all.

Don't terrorize. Organize. Don't burn. Give kids a chance to learn . . . The real answer to race problems in this country is education. Not burning and killing. Be ready. Be qualified. Own something. Be somebody. That's Black Power.

You're like a dull knife, it just ain't cutting.

I've outdone anyone you can name - Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.

I'm not going to be joining ZZ Top. You know they can't play my stuff. It's too complicated.