Quotes
Eyes lie if you ever look into them for the character of the person.
Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.
You know you always need a spark in life and in music, period.
You know I just did a record with Snoop Dogg! Yeah! It's great.
You gotta know when it's time to hang up. But when I finally go, let me go out on stage, my perfect ending. Don't let me go when I'm sick or asleep. Let me be in motion.
You gotta chill on the profanities, you don't tell people you're pissed off, they gonna know it anyway, especially if you're gonna broadcast it all over the world. I just didn't come from that kind of school.
You can't go on stage loaded and then stand backstage and get loaded again. The best way to do it is not to do it at all.
When someone wanna make music wit' you, how could you turn that down? I know some of my constituents are like that, but's dat's dey problem.
We came up very poor. My kids have had a much better life than I'd ever thought of livin'.
These days, I don't say anything to other performers because I don't want to get cussed out.
Sometimes when you're down for the count and don't really feel like getting' up, you have to stay around your peers and the people who love your music or you feel like you're thrown out.
People shout out for songs and I don't even remember writing them.
One thing that's good about music: anybody can entertain as long they really into it and they got somet'in' to say. The only thing I kick is how you say it and the way you say it at.
My father used to rehearse us so much, he just became the boss. Now I can see I was blessed. He would be so tired from working in that steel mill that we kids knew we only had a couple of hours to hang with him before he fell asleep.
My father had seven brothers and eight sisters, and they all had weird names. One's name was West, and another was East.
Mick and Keith write such great songs now. They were learning then. They couldn't have been who they are today if they didn't start speakin' out about their life and what they had to say about it. You can sing somebody else's story, but you can't live nobody else's story as well as they live it.
Me being from the old school, I would not say bitch on a record. I couldn't face my mother if I did.
Man, if he didn't like something you did on stage, he would whack you across the head with a drumstick in the tour bus. James Brown would tell you. You'd have so much respect for him it was like fear.
Leave them wanting more and you know they'll call you back.
It's not just that the singers don't know how to do it any more; sometimes I feel like the audience don't know either. I mean, I want them to make me feel a part of it.