I taught them everything they know, but not everything I know.

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

I've been knocked down a lot of times.

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.

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

When you touch me, good God.

Music has to breathe and sweat. You have to play it live.