I dont have aluminum foil on my windows anymore.

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.

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.

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

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

I had $20 million in the bank, girls are following me all over the f - place, people call my name everywhere I go. What would I change? And then one day you get onstage and you see two little girls who look like they are 11 years old sticking their tongues out and pulling their bras down and you quit touring. That's what happened to me.

I wrote and produced millions and millions of selling records, so my publishing company alone was worth millions of dollars. I didn't have to work anymore in life because when the rappers started sampling... I'm the most sampled artist in history.