I don't know if any genuine meaningful change could ever result from a song. It's kind of like throwing peanuts at a gorilla.

I was born in the back seat of a Yellow Cab in a hospital loading zone and with the meter still running. I emerged needing a shave and shouted 'Time Square, and step on it!'

You choke my days, I'll choke yours.

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.

It's new, it's improved, it's old fashioned.

The things you absorb you will ultimately secrete. It's all out there and available for you to enjoy...and be nourished by.

You've gotta have somebody to trust, that knows a lot.