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

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

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

I'm still James Johnson. Rick James is a stage name. James Johnson keeps Rick James on the ground... Kind of sort of.

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

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