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

The words I use too often are X-rated, something an old man like me shouldn't be talking about anyway.

I worked in a barbershop. I used to make the waves in the brother's hair, you know? Like, Nat King Cole, Sugar Ray Robinson.

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

I'm always surprised that I'm still around funk and that people are still into it.

Record companies would rather you stay dumb, not even think of it as a business, so they can either rip you off or get you out of the way in five years to make way for the new groups.

Hip-hop is getting to the point now where they are going to start sounding like Al Jarreau or Bobby McFerrin or some of the other poets. Some of the better rappers can rap real fast without even melodies. It'll get to that same point.