“I was 14, and I left on my own. Living in a subway train, and police u...” — Charles Bradley Quote

I was 14, and I left on my own. Living in a subway train, and police used to come in with a nightstick and say, 'You can't sleep here.' I'd get up and go across the street, get on another train, and go back the other way.

I think God gave me an inner dictionary. If you play the right music that my heart loves, lyrics just come right to me.

When I got out of Job Corps, I was an empty shell. I didn't know what to do with myself.

I just have to open up when I'm on stage because that's what I did in my life. I want people to know what I've been through, and the love and the honesty that I have kept inside me. I just open my heart and let my heart go free.

Local people do want to see more police on the streets.

It's very hard to be a kid, especially in a predominantly white school or white town where other people want to police your body and hair.

I've never played a police person before 'Black Work,' and certainly had never worn a uniform.

I made two movies before The Police had a hit record: I did Quadrophenia and a film called Radio On.

The police need to come down to street level.