I'm a long way from Ike Turner.

Anybody that's old and closed-minded does not like Rick James... They don't like the fact that I'm free and I'm wide open.

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

I'm good. Or maybe people just like me.

Punk Funk means to be one with yourself. To be rebellious, aggressive, able to do and say what you feel at all times, without inflicting mental or spiritual pain.

I get some letters from girls that if their mothers knew what they were writing me in these letters, they'd get their butts whipped.

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.