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

Disco is funky when you take one record at a time. It's just that they narrowed it down to one beat to try to corner the market on a particular music. And when you do that with rhythm - talk about something that will get on your nerves. Try to make love with one stroke. Somebody will tell you to fax it in.

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.

Record companies would rather you stay dumb, not even think of it as a business, so they can either rip you off or get you out of the way in five years to make way for the new groups.

Why must I feel like that? Why must I chase the cat?

The bigger the headache, the bigger the pill.

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.