I like Detroit.

I enjoy room service.

I have fun with words.

Beware of current truths.

My career, it's been a mess.

How much of you is repetition?

Voice is the first instrument.

There's no shame in hard work.

I don't like litter and blight.

I've had such an ordinary life.

I used protest music as a vehicle.

I chose music and that's what I do.

I'm not getting old, I'm getting dead.

I've been chasing music since I was 16.

Madness passed me by, she smiled hi. I nodded.

I stopped chasing the music dream back in '74.

There's no blueprint for success in rock'n'roll.

I never left music, I just left the music scene.

I loved Jimmy Reed, the chord changes, the lyrics.

I sing about social issues, not the boy-girl stuff.

I renovate homes and buildings and residences in Detroit.

I love my country. It's just the government I don't trust.

In the '60s and '70s, a protest song was a genre in music.

The earth is going to survive, it's the people that aren't.

I was skeptical about the whole idea of my being in a film.

I like people who can write and sing, and play an instrument.

Cause the sweetest kiss I ever got is the one I've never tasted

It took me 10 years to get a four-year degree, but I graduated.

My entry level has always been pretty high in the music business.

The film, 'Searching For Sugar Man,' has excited my music career.

Hate is too strong of an emotion to waste on someone you don’t like

Barriers are being brought down by technology through the Internet.

About love, don't be a silent partner. And be gentle with your anger.

Whenever I speak, I talk to the collective consciousness of my audience.

I play guitar and I'm always trying to find out the latest kinds of riffs.

I have a sloppy style of playing guitar. A percussive style. Unique in fact.

I got my style. I got my own way of playing. I'm a musician. I'm self-taught.

You see there's music and there's the music business - and they're different.

Rock 'n' roll is a crazy world, and it's how things work out you can't predict.

I want to be mayor of the world. Don't give me too much money or too much power.

I play by ear - I'm self-taught. And so everything I do is through that technique.

I live below my means. I think that's a good discipline because you never can tell.

The Isley Brothers, there's a group that stays together because they're a family band.

I loved the Woody Guthrie tradition of speaking about what's happening to the country.

I'm a musical political, I tend to stick to what I see happening outside my front door.

Many of us come into the world with a clenched fist, but we all leave with an open hand.

You either live under a rock or you walk in the sunshine. That’s pretty much how it goes.

You either live under a rock or you walk in the sunshine. That's pretty much how it goes.

I graduated from Wayne State University, but there's a whole lot you don't learn in school.

Solomon was a musician and David was a musician, so it's a profession that I take seriously.

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