Music, it requires more than brawn. It requires a lot of heart. You gotta put love in there.

I Don’t Want Nobody to Give Me Nothing (Open Up the Door, I'll Get It Myself)

I'm a ghetto man who made good. I never forgot where I came from and who put me on top - God and Jack The Rapper.

Thank God that I had the ability to understand that I had a different beat and that I was a drummer.

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

When I'm on stage, I'm trying to do one thing: bring people joy. Just like church does. People don't go to church to find trouble, they go there to lose it.

Sometimes, you like to let the hair do the talking!