There's no place in the world you can go and not hear rock-and-roll, from Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder to Phil Collins.
There is a certain sort of excess that is interesting, don't you think? And America is, of course, the most excessive place.
Soul lyrics, soul music came at about the same time as the civil rights movement, and it's very possible that one influenced the other.
Rock n' roll really belongs to all America. It really doesn't belong to one city.
Fifty years from now, people will still be listening to Led Zeppelin. They won't even remember me.
My first wife was a theater person.
If anybody asks me where I'm from, my first inclination is to say, 'Washington,' because that's where I grew up meaningfully.
My father was in Ataturk's closest group. They lived together during the War of Liberation in Turkey.
It is very important that the world know that there have been 500 years of peaceful coexistence in Turkey between the Jews and Moslems.
I've lived very well all my life, even when I had no money, and there's very little I can't afford.
Flashy people aren't everything, you know. Even when they have frizzled hair.
Everyone felt like they knew Ray Charles and in a way they did, because he was embodied by his music.
You know what I'd really like to do? I'd like to record some white Chicago jazz.
Jesse Stone did more to develop the basic rock-and-roll sound than anybody else.
I'd be happy if people said that I did a little bit to raise the dignity and recognition of the greatness of African-American music.
