My expectations of other people, I double them on myself.
When I'm on stage, I'm trying to do one thing: bring people joy.
Papa didn't cuss, he didn't raise a whole lot of fuss. But when we did wrong, Papa beat the hell out of us.
If you don't get it the first time, back up and try it again.
Everybody over there, get on up. Everybody out there, get into it. Everybody right there, get involved.
I think the best thing about being James Brown is looking at my little son. Hopefully I can make my son a role model to a lot of people.