Whether Jew or Gentile, I rank top percentile...

I don't need anybody to market or promote me. If people don't want to hear this music, then it's not for them. You cannot please everybody.

I play my enemies like a game of chess

You might win some, but you just lost one.

How you gon' win when you ain't right within. Uh uh come again

When I create music, the feeling that you get... I get first. You [the listener] have a delayed experience with the feeling I initially get when I have a creative insight. Not just the voice, but all the creativity - the production, the idea, the concept, the music involved. There is a high. There is an emotional experience that happens when everything comes together... I made music as consistently as I did, especially back in the day, because it made me feel so good... When everything is on, it's a wonderful feeling.

If the entire week is a battlefield, reading the Bible is sort of like that parachute with the box of reserves that come in the middle of the war: food and water and the toothbrush and toilet paper.