“If a song's about something I've experienced or that could've happened to me it's good. But if it's alien to me, I couldn't lend anything to it. Because that's what soul is all about.”

“I've always felt that rock & roll was very, very wholesome.”

“The man who gets me is getting one hell of a woman.”

“I sing to the realists .People who accept it like it is .”

“R-E-S-P-E-C-T!!!”

“I do not pretend to give such a sum; I only lend it to you. When you shall return to your country with a good character, you cannot fail of getting into some business, that will in time enable you to pay all your debts. In that case, when you meet with another honest man in similar distress, you must pay me by lending this sum to him; enjoining him to discharge the debt by a like operation, when he shall be able, and shall meet with such another opportunity. I hope it may thus go through many hands, before it meets with a knave that will stop its progress. This is a trick of mine for doing a deal of good with a little money.”

“Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.”