I'm one of those regular weird people.

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.

If someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say get it while you can.

If you can get them once, man, get them standing up when they should be sitting down, sweaty when they should be decorous, smile when they should be applauding politely-and I think you sort of switch on their brain, man, so that makes them say: 'Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.' Whoooooo! It's life. That's what rock and roll is for, turn that switch on, and man, it can all be.

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.

As good as you've been to this world is as good as it's gonna be right back to you.

You know why we're stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don't let themselves feel things.