“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 kept my babies fed. I could have dumped them, but I didn’t. I decided that whatever trip I was on, they were going with me. You’re looking at a real daddy.

I never learned to read or write music. Never wanted to fool with scales. That was boring, forced. The music I heard was free – flowing.

I’ll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.

In my day, we didn’t have the cocaine, so we went out and knocked somebody over the head and took the money. But today, all this cocaine and crack, it doesn’t give kids a chance.

Disco deserved a better name, a beautiful name because it was a beautiful art form. It made the consumer beautiful. The consumer was the star.

Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as strong.

All I had was the will and the love for music. I couldn’t read music or write it. No connections, no car, no money, no bankroll, no clothes, no nothing.

People are always looking for me to be a freak, weird.

The cops picked me up for attempted murder. I can still see the detectives, licking their chops. Thought they had me. Two weeks later, the cat came out of a coma and told the truth. I was innocent.

I don’t know if it’s my music, my lyrics, my sound and knowing the music business the way I do – all I can say is, my career has lasted way longer than I expected.

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.

To live two days in succession on the same spiritual plane is a tragedy

There are boundless possibilities for us if we dare to act in God and dare to believe!

Nationality and borders are barriers to our intelligence, to our imagination and to all kinds of possibilities.

I think this is a moment of a lot of possibilities, and openings. Occupy and the 99% movement are really going to break through, and we are going to create a new economy.

The most important thing a woman can do for another is to illuminate her actual possibilities.

I think about the possibilities for empathy, for mutual solidarity among gay men and lesbians, not simply as people who suffer under homophobia, but as people who are also extremely creative, active, and have a particular understanding of the human condition.

But nothing less than the most radical imagination will carry us beyond this place, beyond the mere struggle for survival, to that lucid recognition of our possibilities which will keep us impatient, and unresigned to mere survival.

I was always casting about for role models as a kid and the Star Trek was always available via reruns and also full of possibilities.