Love your mother, she bore you. Love your father, he works for you.
Great artists suffer for the people.
Who isn’t fascinated by evil?
If you escape from people too often,, you wind up escaping from yourself.
Mercy, mercy me, things ain’t what they used to be.
Negotiating means getting the best of your opponent.
LIVE for LIFE, but let live everybody.
Too busy thinking about my baby and I ain’t got time for nothing else.
Who are they to judge us, simply because our hair is long?
I’ve never had any problems with women. Having been one of the world’s greatest womanizers they’ve probably had more problems with me.
I wish that being famous helped prevent me from being constipated.
Little Willie John is the soul singer’s soul singer.
Sexual healing is good for me.
Let’s save all the children, save the babies, save the babies.
Give out some love and you’ll find peace sublime.
Ain’t no mountain high enough, ain’t no valley low enough, ain’t no river wide enough, to keep me from getting to you.
I am not going to be dictated to by fans, certainly. I am dictated enough to by my record company to last me a million years.
I am not a star. At least, I don’t consider myself a star.
For me, love carries the seeds of its own destruction.
When I look at the world it fills me with sorrow, little children today are really going to suffer tomorrow.