Curtis Mayfield

My teacher told me I'd never amount to anything. I left high school at 15, after one year. But my real teachers were all the people around me. And I was a good listener.

How many 54-year-old quadriplegics are putting albums out? You just have to deal with what you got, try to sustain yourself as best you can, and look to the things that you can do.

Everything was a song. Every conversation, every personal hurt, every observance of people in stress, happiness and love... if you could feel it, I could feel it. And I could write a song about it.

It is good to be in front of the lens to appreciate more being behind the lens.

When information is infinite, individual pieces of information are worth nothing.

I confess that I listen to my own music for my own pleasure.