Funk is fun. And it's also a state of mind, ... But it's all the ramifications of that state of mind. Once you've done the best you can, funk it!

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.

Whoever controls the flow of information dictates our perceptions and perspectives; whoever controls the news shapes our destiny.

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.

Funk is fun. And it's also a state of mind, ... But it's all the ramifications of that state of mind. Once you've done the best you can, funk it!

You can rebel against everything adults say. When I want to find out what the new music is, I find out what parents hate.

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