Ray, what you got to do is go climb a mountain..

...My sister Doreena who never lifted a royal finger growing up because she had the heart defect that we later found out was a fly on the X-ray machi….

That’s what you do for family. Anything..

All I ever wanted was to be like Mike Tyson, Muhammad Ali, Roberto Duran, Tommy Hearns, Hagler and Sugar Ray Leonard. Back in the day American people….

The old Lena is dead..

Music's been around a long time, and there's going to be music long after Ray Charles is dead. I just want to make my mark, leave something musically….

What cannot be imagined cannot even be talked about..

Music gave me something to do in my life..

How can I govern others, who can't even govern myself?.

Eat right and you can’t go wrong..

I don't like overt traditionalism..

I fought Sugar Ray so many times, I'm surprised I'm not diabetic..

I love seeing things that work in the micro and work in the macro..

The worse they are the more they see beauty in each other..

Let us be French as the Americans are English..

The less seriously you take yourself, the better work you're going to do..

I don't really like ska..

Education isn't something you can finish.

I fought Sugar Ray so often, I almost got diabetes..

Just being from New York, that's something that you do - knowing how to dress..

I like things to reverberate, to be suggestive..