My teacher said I would either be a hoodlum, or a great entertainer.

I just live one day at a time.

You can't outdo 'Street Songs' and I didn’t even try. [It] had that special magic that comes with timing and good vibrations and you can't even try to capture that exactly again.

I decided to build up my band in Buffalo because Buffalo was where I had originally built up my own musical strength.

I'm a long way from Ike Turner.

I wrote and produced millions and millions of selling records, so my publishing company alone was worth millions of dollars. I didn't have to work anymore in life because when the rappers started sampling... I'm the most sampled artist in history.

I feel that I have to say something in a song and that it's not just enough to lay down the music.