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.

The bigger the headache, the bigger the pill.

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

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

Funk 'em, just to see the look on their face.

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.

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!