I found I was having continually to please the sort of people I'd always hated when I was a child. This began to bring me back to reality.

Get back to where you once belonged.

Well, I just want him to grow up happy. That's the main thing.

I don't believe in Beatles.

Art is only a way of expressing pain.

I'm a freakin' artist, man, not a (expletive) race horse.

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.