In England, in France, in no other country would a black man have a chance to get elected. There's no two ways about it. Our country [USA] has been better about dealing with immigration and people who are different from each other than any other country in the world, that I know of.

I am half a man, holy Jesus, what a drag.

But if you're doing something, show up everyday, and something good might happen - it's not going to happen if you don't show up.

I seen her with the milkman, riding down the street. When you're through with my baby, milkman, send her home to me.

I'm pretty proud of my film music in general.

God bless the potholes on Memory Lane.

I've written a song for Prince. I never showed it to Prince, but just to see if I could do it. At the time, when I sort of knew him, he was recording a song a day. I wondered if I could do that. So I wrote it.