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

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

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.

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

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.

Think! It ain't illegal 'yet.'