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.

Free your mind and your ass will follow

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

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

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.

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.