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.

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.

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

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

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.

I'm a ghetto man who made good. I never forgot where I came from and who put me on top - God and Jack The Rapper.