I think the rich are too rich and the poor are too poor. I don't think the black people are going to rise at all; I think most of them are going to die.

Talent is a burden not a joy. I am not of this planet. I do not come from you. I am not like you.

That is why we fly from the inner void, since God might steal into it. It is not the pursuit of pleasure and the aversion for effort which causes sin, but fear of God. We know that we cannot see him face to face without dying, and we do not want to die.

From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman.

I don't like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.

How can you be an artist and not reflect the times?

Everything that happened to me as a child involved music. It was part of everyday life, as automatic as breathing.