“One preacher turned me on, another turned me off.”

I woke up when I was 14 and went to speak to my mother and scared us both to death.

When a man’s making love, the last thing he thinks about is war.

I’m very happy with this new record. It’s dealing with different aspects of love-it’s me making a statement about people doing something with their lives. It is about caring for others.

If you were a young kid, 19, 20 years old who has two children and a third one on the way and refuses to leave them.

There’s people making babies to my music. That’s nice.

When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn’t swallow the hypocrisy.

The whole system of society tells you what to do.

I’m never gonna quit, cause quitting’ just ain’t my schtick.

Take it off, baby, take it all off. I want you the way you came into the world.

Men used the music to get the girls in the mood to make love. So either way you had it, Barry White is the one artist who actually was in your bedroom with you at your most sacred, sensuous moment of your life.

I woke up one morning, went downstairs, said ‘Good morning’ to my mother and nearly scared both of us to death.’

Leave me alone. I’m fine.

We forget that this music, music made by my brothers and sisters, is still a baby. It’s just beginning. When I think of the possibilities, it makes me smile.

I’m so thankful that your mine, your sweetness is my weakness.

You’re the first, the last, and my everything and the answer to all my dreams. You’re my sun, my moon, my guiding star, my kind of wonderful, that’s what you are

As a boy, I believed freedom for America meant freedom for me. There was a time I believed every word spoken.

To be around me, you must love food, or I’m the most obnoxious person you’ve ever met.

If I were God – and I never understand why I’m not – I should say, “Shop around, I don’t think you’ll find a better bargain than here.”

People say to me, “When did you come out?” But I was never in! When I was about six, I was swanning around the house in clothes that belonged to my mother and my grandmother which I’d found in an attic, saying, “I am a beautiful princess!”

It is the lot of man to share in the deeper aspirations of the universe around him and to share his own destiny as well as that of the universe, now by adjusting himself to its forces, now by putting the whole of his energy to his own ends and purposes.

I always write about war, love, death, and injustice. There’s plenty of that around, so I never run out of ideas.

Grief is like a wheel that goes around and around the world.

It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me.

In NASCAR, you can do a lot of banging around and get pretty serious and even get yourself upside down.