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

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.

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.

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.

I usually spend Valentines Day with my friends. But if I did have a girlfriend, I’d bring her flowers and candy.

At the heart of every slice is an open clubface. And it usually goes with a steep swing that cuts across the ball from out to in.

What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.

I say to the paparazzi, ‘Fellas, take your shot and go.’ It’s just they usually find me on a beach.

Usually we praise only to be praised.

You’re stupid,’ is not something even his most severe critics usually say to President Barack Obama.

Let me say to you that truth has always lived with the minority; what the majority says at a given moment is usually wrong.

I realized that my usual approach is usually critical. That is, a lot of the things that I do, that most people do, are because they hate something somebody else has done, or they hate that something hasn’t been done.