I had always been a free spirit, and always gotten what I wanted.

My music is pretty honest. I can't rap on science fiction. Punk is from the street.

You can't have rock and roll without drugs, you can't have rock and roll without sex.

I can't hang out as loose as I used to, but I can still go down Jefferson Avenue and look in the faces of winos, pimps and junkies, all the things I'm made of.

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

I believe everything happens under God's plan anyway.

I don't think the white establishment will ever respect or appreciate a black man who speaks the truth.