If I can do just one tenth of the good Michael Jackson did for others, I can really make a difference in this world.

Amy [Winehouse] changed pop music forever, I remember knowing there was hope, and feeling not alone because of her. She lived jazz, she lived the blues.

When I'm dead, I want to be remembered as a musician of some worth and substance.

The colored folks been singing it and playing it just like I'm doin' now, man, for more years than I know. I got it from them.

I'm doing this for the kid who truly leads a 'thug life' and thinks it's HOPELESS.

She is the rock 'n' roll queen. Weirdly enough, that is one of the things her reign will be remembered for. Queen Elizabeth I, we remember Raleigh; Queen Elizabeth II it's gonna be the Beatles.