I used to skip school to go there when I was growing up in Newark, ... I saw the Flamingos, the Heartbeats, Jackie Wilson, Chuck Jackson..

You can rebel against everything adults say. When I want to find out what the new music is, I find out what parents hate..

I'm always surprised that I'm still around funk and that people are still into it..

Just gimme some stage. I'll make my own way once I get there..

Free your mind and your ass will follow.

Funk is fun. And it's also a state of mind, ... But it's all the ramifications of that state of mind. Once you've done the best you can, funk it!.

Funk 'em, just to see the look on their face..

Absorb youth and you will be absorbed by youth. Take on new influences without fear and you need not fear what is new. Change the people around you b….

Look both ways before you cross my mind..

I was at the Apollo Theater all the time, skipping school, and I worked in a barbershop. That's how I started with doo-wop. Now I've come full circle….

Whoever controls the flow of information dictates our perceptions and perspectives; whoever controls the news shapes our destiny..

Style is whatever you want to do, if you can do it with confidence..

The desired effect is what you get when you improve your interplanetary funksmanship..

Think! It ain't illegal 'yet.'.

When I hear music that parents hate, or older musicians hate, I know that's the new music. When I hear older people saying, 'I hate Rap or Techno' I ….

The words I use too often are X-rated, something an old man like me shouldn't be talking about anyway..

Hip-hop is getting to the point now where they are going to start sounding like Al Jarreau or Bobby McFerrin or some of the other poets. Some of the ….

The bigger the headache, the bigger the pill..

I pick up on styles, way before they get popular, pretty much before young kids do. I see 'em coming..

Record companies would rather you stay dumb, not even think of it as a business, so they can either rip you off or get you out of the way in five yea….

Disco is funky when you take one record at a time. It's just that they narrowed it down to one beat to try to corner the market on a particular music….