I've been held responsible for taxes I know nothing about.

My music wasn't written by Mozart, Beethoven, Bach or Schubert. It's written by God and me. They go "a one and a two and up." We start on the downbeat. Bam! And that's where we got them.

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

I don't really care what people think, ... I just do my own thing. ... I like being loud and letting people know I'm there.

I only got a seventh-grade education, but I have a doctorate in funk, and I like to put that to good use

Some like them fat, some like them tall, some like them short, skinny legs and all. I like them all.

I just thank God for all of the blessings.