“I just feel I got my inspiration, education and all from others that came before…” — Chuck Berry

One of my realizations is that if you revel over joy, you're going to ache over pain and get killed over hurt. Your span of feelings are going to go just as far one way as the other.

I have lots of ambition!

Music should be made to make people forget their problems, if only for a short while.

There had to be a market in order for you to be successful in a business. The market had to need your business, or the product of it.