Whether you're rich or poor, life's still cold-blooded.

Funkers are people who dig the funk; Little funkers, Big funkers, Old funkers, Young funkers, Foxy funkers, Mother funkers, Papa funkers.

Now is my time. Everything I've done up to this point is just a warm up. This is where it all begins.

I feel that I have to say something in a song and that it's not just enough to lay down the music.

I was going to get drafted, but I didn't really want to go into the Army.

I'm trying to change the root of funk, trying to make it more progressive, more melodic and more lyrically structured.

I was angry about the fact that my father would beat my mother on a daily basis, that my mother would like take it in turn and beat on me. I was an abused child. I was mad about all those things, very bitter and very angry.