The one thing that can solve most of our problems is dancing.

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

It's a Man's Man's Man's World

My son don't have to say it loud, I'm black and I'm proud. He don't have to be called those crazy names.

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

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.

You can't teach others if you are living the same way.