Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
The 1960s were about releasing ourselves from conventional society and freeing ourselves.
I have music in my brain all the time, all sorts.
I should be writing a poem every morning but I'm not.
Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains.
Only white men have the luxury of ignoring race.
Fathead Newman: This ain't no weed, Ray. And we ain't snorting no bitch. This is boy! Boy'll make your ass null and void. Ray Charles: Null and void, just like my life.
Growing up in the '70s, it was only a few years before that when men started to grow their hair long. And in the '70s, people were pushing the envelope a little farther, with men having even more style and piercing both their ears and wearing makeup.
Men. Do they all evade as first line of defense?
No one in my family had ever even gone to college.
Rosecrans is a family name - it used to be a last name in our family.
I grew up reading books about heroic collies.
[repeated line] Ray Charles: Don't jive me, man.
For the larger interest of humanity, Islamic society presents the safest place on this planet.
I don't function well in certain aspects of society, and you can read into that what you will.
Society has taught us to suppress certain things and not do certain things.
Society tells you that when you're old you have to retire. You have to defy that.
When playing music, it is possible to achieve a unique sense of peace.
When I was 13, I started working in a nightclub with Ray Charles. That's the greatest school in the world, the school of the streets. Ray taught me how to read in Braille. He was only two years older than me, but it was like he was 100 years older.
My aunts still try to fatten me up.
When it comes to rapacious 19th century capitalism, my family's hands are clean.
