Barry White

I don't know if it's my music, my lyrics, my sound, and knowing the music business the way I do-all I can say is, my career has lasted way longer than I expected.

As a boy, I believed freedom for America meant freedom for me. There was a time I believed every word spoken.

When I commit, I commit with my whole heart, my whole being. I know the Bible like the back of my hand.

I'm very happy with this new record. It's dealing with different aspects of love-it's me making a statement about people doing something with their lives. It is about caring for others.

No one could understand the bond between me and my brother. I struggled to understand the forces that drove his soul in one direction and mine in another.

We were ready to launch Barry White, but the record company wouldn't put it out. Said it wouldn't sell.

I'll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.

Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as strong.

The whole system of society tells you what to do.