Got ants in my pants and I need to dance, so big fine mama, come give me a chance.

It doesn't matter how you travel it, it's the same road. It doesn't get any easier when you get bigger, it gets harder. And it will kill you if you let it.

Some like them fat, some like them tall, some like them short, skinny legs and all. I like them all.

My music wasn't written by Mozart, Beethoven, Bach or Schubert. It's written by God and me. They go "a one and a two and up." We start on the downbeat. Bam! And that's where we got them.

I only got a seventh-grade education, but I have a doctorate in funk, and I like to put that to good use

The hardest thing about being James Brown is I have to live. I don't have no down time.

I had to tell about my colonic, which expresses the fact why I'm so neat today as opposed to a few years ago. I never knew that the weight made that much difference.