I'm kidding about having only a few dollars. I might have a few dollars more.

I don't know karate, but I know crazy.

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

I'm not going to be joining ZZ Top. You know they can't play my stuff. It's too complicated.

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

I've outdone anyone you can name - Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.

Hair is the first thing. And teeth the second. Hair and teeth. A man got those two things he's got it all.