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

Free your mind and your ass will follow

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.

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

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.