The thing which America allows you to be is it's the country of opportunities.

The first thing you must learn is to always treat a man and a woman with total respect and honor, 'cause if you do that, the legacy you will leave behind will be work.

I'm like Cab Calloway: I love the entertainment, and I've loved entertaining people ever since I was little.

I feel that life is short, so we should be disciplined, but at the same time we should have a good time.

I'm not going away fast; I've been around for a while, and plan to be around for a while more.

I was looking for Quincy Jones, that's who I was obsessed with. Watching Mike [Jackson], I always knew that I had to be a showman on stage, because when people come to you live you always want them to come back. You gotta give them something to remember.

When the Fugees were big, we made a whole lot of money, and what happened was that I saved my money and never spent it.