A young songwriter shouldn't think he or she doesn't stand a chance because someone has big corporate people behind him. Never look at it like that.

God has been with me in my whole career.

I was put here to sing.

If you wrote something, you deserve to get paid and recognized for your work. No one should take a bow with another man's hat.

Stand up for what you know is right.

I'll sing as long as I can because I enjoy doing that. I enjoy the fans and what I do. I love the traveling and the hotels and just seeing the world over and over again.

You know, I did records by myself and I always will say the Isley Brothers, and featuring Ronald. I won't, you know, just, I won't try to deviate from the Isley Brothers, because that's what the family dream was all about.

Of all our possessions, wisdom alone is imortal.