What everybody's looking for today, they're looking for escape-ism.

You're like a dull knife, it just ain't cutting.

Sometimes you struggle so hard to feed your family one way, you forget to feed them the other way, with spiritual nourishment. Everybody needs that.

I used to play one job and have 125 pair of shoes on the floor. What was I doing? I couldn't wear but one pair.

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

As I always said, if people wanted to know who James Brown is, all they have to do is listen to my music.

We can never be like it was at Penn State with Joe Paterno. That was an anomaly in an of itself.