I pick up on styles, way before they get popular, pretty much before young kids do. I see 'em coming.

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.

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.

Think! It ain't illegal 'yet.'

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.

Hip-hop is getting to the point now where they are going to start sounding like Al Jarreau or Bobby McFerrin or some of the other poets. Some of the better rappers can rap real fast without even melodies. It'll get to that same point.

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