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

When I hear music that parents hate, or older musicians hate, I know that's the new music. When I hear older people saying, 'I hate Rap or Techno' I rush to it.

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

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!

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

Absorb youth and you will be absorbed by youth. Take on new influences without fear and you need not fear what is new. Change the people around you by changing the people around you.

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