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James Brown, Ray Charles, Jackie Wilson, Chuck Berry And Little Richard - I Think They Had Strong Influences On A Lot Of People, Because These Were The Guys Who Really Got Rock'n'roll Going. I Like To Start With The Origin Of Things, Because Once It Gets Along It Changes. It's So Interesting To See How It Really Was In The Beginning.

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James Brown, Ray Charles, Jackie Wilson, Chuck Berry And Little Richard - I Think They Had Strong Influences On A Lot Of People, Because These Were The Guys Who Really Got Rock'n'roll Going. I Like To Start With The Origin Of Things, Because Once It Gets Along It Changes. It's So Interesting To See How It Really Was In The Beginning.

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Those Who Criticize, They Desire Our Blood Not Our Pain. But Still I Must Achieve I Must Seek Truth In All Things. I Must Endure For The Power I Was Sent Forth, For The World For The Children. But Have Mercy, For I've Been Bleeding A Long Time Now.

When You Have Seen The Things I Have Seen And Traveled All Over The World, You Would Not Be Honest To Yourself And The World To [look Away].

I Know A Tree Feels It When The Wind Blows Through It. It Probably Goes, 'chhhhhh, This Is Wonderful.' And That's How I Feel When I'm Singing Some Songs. It's Wonderful.

I Hate It. I Hate Taxidermy Shops And All That Crap.

Music Is Colorless. It's For Everybody, It's For The World, It's For Everybody To Enjoy.

If You Don't Have That Memory Of Being Loved, You Are Condemned To Search The World For Something To Fill You Up.

The Key To Being A Wonderful Writer Is Not To Write. You Just Get Out Of The Way. Leave Room For God To Walk In The Room. And When I Write Something That I Know Is Right, I Get On My Knees And Say 'thank You.'

That's What's Great About Show Business. It's Escapism. You Pay Your Five Bucks To Get In And Sit There And You're In Another World. Forget About The Problems In The World. It's Wonderful.

Most People Don't Know Me, That Is Why They Write Such Things In Which Most Is Not True. I Cry Very Very Often Because It Hurts And I Worry About The Children, All My Children All Over The World, I Live For Them.

Because I Wanted To Have A Place That I Could Create Everything That I That I Never Had As A Child. So, You See Rides. You See Animals. There's A Movie Theater.

I Like People Who Can Make You Laugh Without Using Vulgarity, Or Bad Words.

It's Been My Fate To Compensate For The Childhood I've Never Known.

Be Careful What You Do, Because The Lie Becomes The Truth.

This Extravagant Dwelling, As Domineering As It Was Distant, Brought Home To Me The Intimateconnection Between Tyranny And Abstraction, And Put Me In Mind Of John Berger's Observation That "abstraction's Capacity To Ignore What Is Real Is Undoubtedly Where Most Evil Begins."

When I Perform, I Lose Myself. I'm In Total Control Of That Stage. I Don't Think About Anything. I Know What I Want To Do From The Moment I Step Out There And I Love Every Minute Of It.

I'm A Collector Of Cartoons. All The Disney Stuff, Bugs Bunny, The Old Mgm Ones. It's Real Escapism, It's Like Everything's Alright. It's Like The World Is Happening Now In A Far Away City. Everything's Fine.

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