“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.”

“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.”

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

“I'll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.”

“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.”

“I have never been so calculating as to sing some Barry White song to get a girl. But I do think it's very romantic to cook dinner and sit around the piano at night and sing together.”