I go to temple a lot less than I would like because when I do, people still look at me as if they think it's a publicity stunt.

I'd learned a lot in the Army. I knew that above all things in the world I had to become so big, so strong that people and their hatred could never touch me.

Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.

If you want to get known as a singer you hire five sexy chicks and let them fight over you onstage and for the cameras. That's publicity, man.

The manic pursuit of success cost me everything I could love: my wife, my three children, some friends I would have liked to grow old with.

I'm a lot less serious than people think.