“Woo means the ability to entice someone or something to get what you want. My first solo album was called: All the Woo of the Universe, which was titled by George Clinton.”

I got private lessons in keyboard at Julliard, before New England Conservatory of Music in Boston.

I don’t listen to a lot of radio today. It’s not really music to me.

You can be enticed by food, wooed by food, sex, money, or instruments.

I was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, and no one had ever taught anybody that young, back in those days.

My mother wanted me to be a concert pianist.

The radios are going to dictate. That’s another fight. That’s another story there. I wish they just let it be.

I was known around the college for jamming in the lounge.

We used to have a main female vocalist. But she had a baby. Now we do the singing ourselves.

Prince presented us at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Usually, I just do what I want, because I got it that way.

If you can learn to convey what you express in the first rough sketch, you’re really saying what you need to say in that.

I like businesses in transition, first of all. If ever there were a business in transition, it is publishing.

When you manage people, you must first convince them they need managing. So you create the problems and then let the people cry for solutions.

when your child is in trouble, the first thing you do is blame yourself.

James Bond in his Sean Connery days … was the first well-known bachelor on the American scene who was not a drifter or a degenerate and did not eat out of cans.

The first step in learning to love others is the attempt to understand them.

Hegel was the first to state correctly the relation between freedom and necessity. To him, freedom is the insight into necessity.

Wherever despotism abounds, the sources of public information are the first to be brought under its control.