Hit the road Jack, don'tcha come back no more, no more, no more, no more. Hit the road Jack, don'tcha come back no more.

The role of the designer is basically that of a good host, anticipating the needs of the guest.

It's like Duke Ellington said, there are only two kinds of music - good and bad. And you can tell when something is good.

I think that most great artists who are extremely known, as I am, would intimidate a lot of people. I don't want to do that to people, but I know I do.

Music to me is like breathing. I don't get tired of breathing, I don't get tired of music.

[On his heroin addiction:] I did it to myself. It wasn't society...it wasn't a pusher, it wasn't being blind or being black or being poor. It was all my doing.

Sometimes my dreams are so deep that I dream that I'm dreaming.