It doesn't matter to me what is going on today because my music encompasses every kind of mood that exists in human beings. That's my stick.

This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.

It's a new dawn, it's a new day...and I'm feeling good.

Funk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow.

Desegregation is a joke.

What is love but a prelude to sorrow...with heartache ahead for your goal.

I'm a real rebel with a cause.