Newspaper people have a habit of putting you in the front pages to sell their papers, and then after they've sold their papers and got big circulations, they say, 'Look at what we've done for you

Make your own dream .I can't wake you up. You can wake you up. I can't cure you. You can cure you.

Creativity is a gift. It doesn't come through if the air is cluttered.

Before Elvis there was nothing.

Before many black singers were still labouring under that problem of God; it was often 'God will save us'. But right through the blacks were singing directly and immediately about their pain and also about sex, which is why I like it.

Everybody's talking about ministers, sinisters, banisters, and canisters, bishops, fishops, rabbis, and popeyes, bye-bye, bye-byes.

Half of what I say is meaningless, but I say it just to reach you.