You and I, we'll be together 'til the six is nine.

I love marijuana - Mary Jane - and you can print that! I smoke it every day and it's the greatest thing since ice cream and I'm not afraid to say it.

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

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

I believe everything happens under God's plan anyway.

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

I mean, Rick James was just a man-made image, the image I created. Just trying to live Rick James almost killed me.