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

What everybody's looking for today, they're looking for escape-ism.

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'd rather be Jack be smart, than Jack be quick. Watch out for the man with the big fat licking stick.

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.

Retire for what? What would I do? I made my name as a person that is helping. I'm like Moses in the music business.

I want to say to you: Help yourself, so you can help someone else.