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.

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.

When I hear music that parents hate, or older musicians hate, I know that's the new music. When I hear older people saying, 'I hate Rap or Techno' I rush to it.

Look both ways before you cross my mind.

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.