Off stage it's cool-out time. You can't funk and roll ALL the time.

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.

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.

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.

If anything I consider myself non-violent. I'm from the hippy era, peace, love, groovy.

You can't outdo 'Street Songs' and I didn’t even try. [It] had that special magic that comes with timing and good vibrations and you can't even try to capture that exactly again.

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