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

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.

My ability has always been to walk out on the stage and see the audience and figure out what they wanna hear.

Just gimme some stage. I'll make my own way once I get there.

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

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

If you got a booty, you're going to dance to disco, funk, you know, whatever's going on. Funk is going to be involved in it.