I've Been A Puppet, A Pauper, A

Rock 'n Roll Smells Phony And False. It Is Sung, Played And Written For The Most Part By Cretinous Goons And By Means Of Its Almost Imbecilic Reiteration And Sly, Lewd, In Plain Fact, Dirty Lyrics ... Manages To Be The Martial Music Of Every Side-burned Delinquent On The Face Of The Earth.

With Few Exceptions, Every Major Pop Singer In The Us During Her Generation Has Been Touched In Some Way By Her Genius. It Is Billie Holiday Who Was, And Still Remains, The Greatest Single Musical Influence On Me. Lady Day Is Unquestionably The Most Important Influence On American Popular Singing In The Last Twenty Years.

I'm Not One Of Those Complicated, Mixed-up Cats. I'm Not Looking For The Secret To Life... I Just Go On From Day To Day, Taking What Comes.

To Me Religion Is A Deeply Personal Thing In Which Man And God Go It Alone Together, Without The Witch Doctor In The Middle. The Witch Doctor Tries To Convince Us That We Have To Ask God For Help, To Spell Out To Him What We Need, Even To Bribe Him With Prayer Or Cash On The Line.

A Friend To Me Has No Race, No Class And Belongs To No Minority. My Friendships Were Formed Out Of Affection, Mutual Respect And A Feeling Of Having Something Strong In Common. These Are Eternal Values That Cannot Be Racially Classified. This Is The Way I Look At Race.