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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Just gimme some stage. I'll make my own way once I get there.