Change is inevitable and always good in one sense or the other.

Stop this agony of wishing Play it out Don't think, don't hesitate Curving back within yourself Just create... Just create

A lot of people misunderstand me. That's because they don't know me at all.

All the forms of popular music from jazz to hip-hop, to bebop, to soul [come from black innovation]. You talk about different dances from the catwalk, to the jitterbug, to the Charleston, to break dancing -\-\ all these are forms of black dancing...What would [life] be without a song, without a dance, and joy and laughter, and music.

Look who's standing if you please, 'though you tried to bring me to my knees.

The thing that I love most about being on stage is making people happy...It's my job to do that, and I enjoy it.

A lot of people have been overexposed. Where people are fed up. I pray that that never happens with me.