I walked out of the Chinese restaurant with a fat check, a record deal, and a box of shrimp egg foo yung!
Solomon Burke

I should have my own publishing companies.
Solomon Burke

I want to be a soul singer.
Solomon Burke

As you grow older, you learn to understand life a little better.
Solomon Burke

Sometimes its controversy, but we all have our choices that we make.
Solomon Burke

But we didn't have the financial structure, like the right attorneys, the right managers, the right accountants, and we were going against the grain of what black entertainers is supposed to do.
Solomon Burke

If we could buy these properties and then invest in the Black community, with our own McDonald's, with our own Kentucky Fried Chickens, it was gonna be a great move.
Solomon Burke

My manager was Buddy Glee, who put me together with Mike Curb, and was basically the idea to bring some soul to the label and bring something different to the label besides the Hank Williams situation.
Solomon Burke