"When you look at Michael Jackson, there's nobody who loves him in that family, nobody. If they did, they'd tell him he didn't have to do all that in order to be famous. All he has to do is keep doing his music and be himself. Michael's been a little touched for about 20 years, but somebody needs to pull him aside and tell him they love him."

"I really wanted to just be a musician. I didn't want to be anything else, but I was funny and all that."

"Well, the album 'Intuition' is out and just went platinum officially. So I think to have the music doing what it's doing right now, man, it's the ultimate. Nobody is really selling records out there but we are at a million records and we dropped it at Christmas, so we are just trying to get that thing to like two million, you know."

"In our music, in our everyday life, there are so many negative things. Why not have something positive and stamp it with blackness?"

"The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time."

"We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life."

"When purpose is clear, every obstacle transforms into a stepping stone. Remember this in moments of decisive trial — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"I am a night painter, so when I come into the studio the next morning the delirium is over."