it ain't no sin, to take off your skin and dance around in your bones

In terms of black music - the only music that we can call our own, that was really born here - I don't think a lot has been done to chronicle the relations between American history and where black music fits in.

I don't know what the 'big time' is.

It's hard to win when you always lose.

You have to keep busy. After all, no dog's ever pissed on a moving car.

We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. We are monkeys with money and guns.

I don't like hearing Beatles songs in commercials. It almost renders them useless. I think, 'Oh God, another one bites the dust.'