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

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

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.

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

If you got a booty, you're going to dance to disco, funk, you know, whatever's going on. Funk is going to be involved in it.