Style is whatever you want to do, if you can do it with confidence.

I pick up on styles, way before they get popular, pretty much before young kids do. I see 'em coming.

The bigger the headache, the bigger the pill.

It's the easiest way to stay in the game: By helping the younger kids, they're gonna preach for you.

I was at the Apollo Theater all the time, skipping school, and I worked in a barbershop. That's how I started with doo-wop. Now I've come full circle. I did all kinds of music. I used to work on Broadway and Tin Pan Alley.

Funk is fun. And it's also a state of mind, ... But it's all the ramifications of that state of mind. Once you've done the best you can, funk it!

The desired effect is what you get when you improve your interplanetary funksmanship.