“If you wrote something, you deserve to get paid and recognized for you...” — Ronald Isley Quote

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.

I was put here to sing.

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.

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.

Stand up for what you know is right.

I think familiarity breeds contempt. I mean, we'll never get another Greta Garbo will we? Someone would go in with a camera Sellotaped to the bottom of a tray trying to get film of her with no make-up on.

Orthodoxy is my doxy - heterodoxy is another man's doxy.

He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there's another dog.

The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another - no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy.

Hollywood will put you in a box, so to speak. Some people will have seen you in 'La Bamba' or another dramatic film and think, 'Okay, that's what Lou does.' But they don't really have an idea of the range or diversity that I can bring to a project.