I'm finally locked into the now, and it's great.

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

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

Now is my time. Everything I've done up to this point is just a warm up. This is where it all begins.

Whether you're rich or poor, life's still cold-blooded.

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 decided to build up my band in Buffalo because Buffalo was where I had originally built up my own musical strength.