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!

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

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

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 by changing the people around you.

Think! It ain't illegal 'yet.'

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.

Look both ways before you cross my mind.

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

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

Why must I feel like that? Why must I chase the cat?

I think a lot of people really have religious overtones of having come from somewhere. I mean, even the whole concept of religion is kind of alien.

Until you are clear nothing will be. The moment you are clear everything will be.

Democracy is the worst insult to any society that is increasingly secular and growing in incivility for there it is more abused than used.

If you choose not to pursue your dreams, you'll still be a part of a dream - only it will be someone else's.

The great thing about Glasgow is that if there's a nuclear attack it'll look exactly the same afterwards.

You define a good flight by negatives: you didn't get hijacked, you didn't crash, you didn't throw up, you weren't late, you weren't nauseated by the food. So you are grateful.

I feel very, very proud that so many people have copied me

The less seriously you take yourself, the better work you're going to do.

In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone; but sometimes it is a great relief.

Until the album is perfect and every track sounds like a single and has a world-renowned icon on it, it's not done.