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..

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

I can't hang out as loose as I used to, but I can still go down Jefferson Avenue and look in the faces of winos, pimps and junkies, all the things I'….

I just live one day at a time..

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 ….

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

I don't try to hide sex in my music. Music is very sexual. I don't hide it..

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..

I'm not part of the Hollywood scene. I don't run around with 30 women. I have a very calm household. I'm surrounded by my grandkids and wonderful fri….

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 sp….

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 an….

My teacher said I would either be a hoodlum, or a great entertainer..

She's the kind you don't take home to mother..

I'm too old to do crazy things anymore..

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 t….

I dont have aluminum foil on my windows anymore..

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

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

I was angry about the fact that my father would beat my mother on a daily basis, that my mother would like take it in turn and beat on me. I was an a….

I try to make the audience forget all their problems -- for an hour and a half or so get them out of themselves, and space, and time, and consciousne….

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..