This nigger, he's a stunt master!

If you're great, that means you're freaked out that the next day you're not going to be great. You keep trying.

I didn't have any sophistication. I didn't really have any great taste or anything like that. I was just a kid from Brooklyn. But what I learnt is the why, the how. The work ethic.

You try to do the best with what you've got and ignore everything else. That's why horses get blinders in horse racing: You look at the horse next to you, and you lose a step.

The good news is in the record business, they only count your successes.

I consider the recording studio where I was born.