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

I worked in a barbershop. I used to make the waves in the brother's hair, you know? Like, Nat King Cole, Sugar Ray Robinson.

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

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.

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

Look both ways before you cross my mind.