Live each day like it's your last, 'cause one day you gonna be right

Many times during auditions, I was told that I couldn't carry a note with a bucket, and that I sure couldn't play the piano.

I heard someone say that all black people got rhythm. Bullshit.

Goodbye don't mean gone.

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

The fact of the matter is, you don't give up what's natural. Anything I've fantasized about, I've done.

Just like you can buy grades of silk, you can buy grades of justice.