Being in public with May and the children was too heavy. I was irreversibly tuned in to everyone around us.

My home has always been show business.

Talk about handicap - I'm a one-eyed Negro Jew.

I don't have many easy songs.

I bought a house in the Hollywood Hills and brought my grandmother from Harlem to live in it with me.

In terms of addiction, there is nothing more powerful than men's toys.

My mother was born in San Juan. So I'm Puerto Rican, Jewish, colored and married to a white woman. When I move into a neighborhood, people start running four ways at the same time.