Art is for healing ourselves, and everybody needs their own personal art to heal up their problems.

Everybody has their own level of doing their music. ... Mine just happened to resonate over the years, in one way and another, with a significant enough number of people so that I could do it professionally.

Cocaine made people deaf, it made people dead and it made people real obnoxious.

Cocaine made my nose bleed right away. I thought why do I need a nose bleed? It would make me real nervous and talk really fast. I'm already pretty good at talking too fast. I thought, "Why do I need that?"

What I think is the universal, wonderful thing about music, is that it's very inclusive.

I think if the United States gave anything to culture at large in the 20th century, the most important contribution made was the popular song.

I never went to the Beatles' concerts to scream. I never screamed at anybody's show. I was on my feet with the entire, all of the crowned heads of Motown, and we were shrieking our guts out.