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

I'm twice as old, but I feel good.

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

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

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.

Takes a man or a woman to say I'm sorry, and it takes a fool to walk away.

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.