Quotes About Legacy

Being inducted into the songwriting hall of fame by Clive Davis, that was pretty memorable.

My dad helped me understand songwriting because of him playing Babyface a lot. I don't even know if my dad realized that him just being him, him just living his life, loving what he loved, poured more into me than anybody ever would know.

It's hard not to go back and look at my songwriting catalog and go, 'Look, there are 600 to 700 songs here.'

I want to be here for a long time, so I am going to do everything I have to do to be here. And I want to walk my daughter down the aisle and give her away to somebody some day. I want to make sure I am still here to make sure my two young sons become men.

Sony's Walkman far predated the iPod. Nokia ruled smartphones before Apple.

Even before my dad passed away, people tried to buy the Lakers. Sony tried in the 1980s. People have always wanted to buy the Lakers. They're not for sale.

Soon, I'll be like all the others. The time will come for all of us, but the ideas of the Cuban Communists will remain.

When my brother passed away... I made a decision that I might die soon, and if I die, I want people to know who I really am.

The 'Ignatius' album means a lot to me - it celebrates the life of my brother Icepick Jay, another one we lost too soon.

Life begins when a person first realizes how soon it will end.

That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.

The sooner I get into the Hall of Fame the better.

Without a doubt, absolutely, a woman will be a president, and probably sooner rather than later. I am excited about that, and if what I did serves as a steppingstone for another woman down the course, I am very grateful to have had that chance.

Roddy actually was in the business longer then I was and started sooner than I did, and Roddy was a smart guy.

Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire.

Sooner or later, the time comes when a man has to think on the health. I had a really long and great career, and I believe I left a deep mark in the martial arts. I have no regrets.

We go after legacies because we just know that, sooner or later, people will understand what we bring to this culture and bring to the game.

It is funny that fans will come up to me constantly asking when I'm going into the Hall of Fame. I respond, 'Well, I don't know. I know they listed me in the Top 50. So sooner or later, I guess.'

In following their line through, and those of Plantagenet and Tudor, there is but little to soothe the mind.

When 'Penthouse' and 'Hustler' came along, they confused what I was trying to do. Before they arrived, we were perceived as a sophisticated men's magazine.

I think Hefner himself wants to go down in history as a person of sophistication and glamour. But the last person I would want to go down in history as is Hugh Hefner.

I wore the number 24 in high school my freshman, sophomore year because of him. I wore Kobe Bryant basketball shoes because of Kobe Bryant. Every time I laced up my basketball shoes, I felt like I had Kobe Bryant with me. I had a little part of him - I had his jumper, his fadeaway.

My grandfather was actually a doo-wop singer in Panama. They were called The Dominos. He was the high soprano voice.

Among contemporaries, I hugely admire Alice Munro, our Chekhov, Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, and John Updike, American masters all. I also believe that the voice of Gordon Lish is astoundingly original and sorrowful.