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

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

Look both ways before you cross my mind.

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.

I used to skip school to go there when I was growing up in Newark, ... I saw the Flamingos, the Heartbeats, Jackie Wilson, Chuck Jackson.

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

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