
Direct quote: Saddam also listened to the radio — “He’d always stop tuning if he stumbled across a Mary J. Blige song” — and liked to ride a rickety exercise bike that he called his “pony.” He joked that he was a gazelle, building up his leg strength to leap over the prison walls.
http://nypost.com/2017/06/01/saddam-hussein-loved-mary-j-blige-burned-all-his-sons-cars/