The most beautiful curve on a woman’s body is her smile.
Everyone to me has to pick a subject to talk about in music if you're going to be a writer.
Elton John's opinion turned the label's opinion around, all in a day.
I try to tell a story musically in a song.
There's a time when people give their words to each other it has to mean something. I'm a street cat. I've belonged in gangs and when you had a partner, you went down with your partner whether you won the fight or lost it. You went down together.
No one could understand the bond between me and my brother. I struggled to understand the forces that drove his soul in one direction and mine in another.
I didn't mind working in the clubs, but I resented it being a club where pimps hang out. Because the music that I create is of a higher intellect than that. It not only encompasses pimps, but whores, ballplayers, executives. . . everybody.
If you feel like you can't actually do the right thing and you're headed off into the field of justice, maybe there's no point in going into it.
When I began to make some money, I really wanted to have a home.
Habit, of which passion must be wary, may all the same be the sweetest part of love.
Trent Lott has regained a position of leadership. He was the former majority leader who lost his post for racially insensitive commentary. I believe he mentioned that Strom Thurmond in 1948, who ran as a segregationist candidate, should have won. . . . But now, sound the irony alarm. He has recaptured a position and his position -- I kid you not -- in the Senate will be minority whip. So, my guess is he takes to that job like, let's say, white on rice.