You got to use what you got to get just what you want.

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

I don't really care what people think, ... I just do my own thing. ... I like being loud and letting people know I'm there.

When I'm on stage, I'm trying to do one thing: bring people joy. Just like church does. People don't go to church to find trouble, they go there to lose it.

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

Everybody over there, get on up. Everybody out there, get into it. Everybody right there, get involved.

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