You can take care of yourself, and God helps those who help themselves.

I'm a ghetto man who made good. I never forgot where I came from and who put me on top - God and Jack The Rapper.

Sometimes I feel like I'm a preacher as well, 'cause I can really get into an audience.

I've been knocked down a lot of times.

When I'm on stage, I'm trying to do one thing: bring people joy.

Tell the politicians and the hustlers: live and let live.

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