I used to play one job and have 125 pair of shoes on the floor. What was I doing? I couldn't wear but one pair.

I'm the most sampled and stolen. What's mine is mine, and what's yours is mine, too... I got a song about that... But I'm never gonna release it. Don't want a war with the rappers. If it wasn't good, they wouldn't steal it.

I did the thing with bonds, which was about 30 million dollars, and didn't get none of the money on them.

In our advanced technological age, most people deny the possibility of miracles.... Miracles don't happen, we are told, because they contravene the laws of nature and worse, they sound religious! Yet we live and move in a sea of miracle.

Money won't change you, but time will take you out.

I've been knocked down a lot of times.

I named my new son James Joseph Brown II. I think he's going to be a lot better than I was.