At a certain age it just became apparent to me that this was probably the work that I would have to do.

Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.

Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.

I would like to see more airplay for all artists, no matter what age. I think there's a lot of money being spent toward the young guys, but a lot of the older guys are the ones who blazed the trail for those young guys.

In my old age, I'll be in L.A.

I shall not grow conservative with age.

I first learned that there were black people living in some place called other than the United States in the western hemisphere when I was a very little boy, and my father told me that when he was a boy about my age, he wanted to be an Episcopal priest, because he so admired his priest, a black man from someplace called Haiti.

Why should 20-year-olds only be considered sexy? I think we get better with age.

I saw how many people were poor and how many kids my age went to school hungry in the morning, which I don't think most of my contemporaries in racially segregated schools in the South thought very much about at the time.

When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.