"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."

"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."

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

"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."

"There's people making babies to my music. That's nice."

"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'll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth."

"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."

"When I commit, I commit with my whole heart, my whole being. I know the Bible like the back of my hand."

"I quit high school on my birthday. It was my senior year and I didn't see the point. This was 1962, and I was ready to make music."

"No one could understand the bond between me and my brother. I struggled to understand the forces that drove his soul in one direction and mine in another."

"I try to tell a story musically in a song."

"The whole system of society tells you what to do."

"We were ready to launch Barry White, but the record company wouldn't put it out. Said it wouldn't sell."

"I've always loved War's Low Rider and Sly Stone's Thank You, and I just wanted to put my take on them."

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

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

"Elton John's opinion turned the label's opinion around, all in a day."

"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."

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