The worst thing about that kind of prejudice... is that while you feel hurt and angry and all the rest of it, it feeds you self-doubt. You start thinking, perhaps I am not good enough.

I can't stand loud guitars that make me deaf.

My love is like the wind and wild is the wind. Give me more than one caress, satisfy my hungriness. Let the wind blow through your heart for wild is the wind.

My job is not done. I address my songs now to the third world. I am popular all over Asia and Africa and the Middle East, not to speak of South Africa, where I'm trying to go to see Nelson Mandela.

I was always a politician from the day the civil rights people chose me as their protest singer.

I was not reluctant to become a singer. Singing has been an activity I've done my whole life, without thought.

I don't like rap music at all. I don't think it's music. It's just a beat and rapping.