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.

My ability has always been to walk out on the stage and see the audience and figure out what they wanna hear.

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

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

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 think a lot of people really have religious overtones of having come from somewhere. I mean, even the whole concept of religion is kind of alien.

Absorb youth and you will be absorbed by youth. Take on new influences without fear and you need not fear what is new. Change the people around you by changing the people around you.