I want to shake people up so bad, that when they leave a nightclub where I've performed, I just want them to be to pieces.

There's just something about vampires that's sexy. It's the same reason why women go for the bad boy - you want them but you shouldn't have them.

There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.

As a political weapon, it has helped me for 30 years defend the rights of American blacks and third-world people all over the world, to defend them with protest songs. To move the audience to make them conscious of what has been done to my people around the world.

I don't like rap music at all. I don't think it's music. It's just a beat and rapping.

There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.