I don't really care what people think, ... I just do my own thing. ... I like being loud and letting people know I'm there.

The one thing that can solve most of our problems is dancing.

Hair is the first thing. And teeth the second. Hair and teeth. A man got those two things he's got it all.

I Don’t Want Nobody to Give Me Nothing (Open Up the Door, I'll Get It Myself)

I named my new son James Joseph Brown II. I think he's going to be a lot better than I was.

I only got a seventh-grade education, but I have a doctorate in funk, and I like to put that to good use

Sometimes you struggle so hard to feed your family one way, you forget to feed them the other way, with spiritual nourishment. Everybody needs that.

My music wasn't written by Mozart, Beethoven, Bach or Schubert. It's written by God and me. They go "a one and a two and up." We start on the downbeat. Bam! And that's where we got them.

I've got soul and I'm super bad.

You got to use what you got to get just what you want.

I taught them everything they know, but not everything I know.

The light of compassion opens the petals of the heart. When the petals of the heart unfold fragrance spreads across the valley.

Bass players have bigger instruments." Charlie's slow grin curled her toes and he added, "We also do it deeper.

The chances you take… the people you meet… the people you love...the faith that you have - that’s what’s going to define your life.

Open your ears before you open your mouth, it may surprise your eyes!

It was a terrible day for baseball, it was a worse day for Congress.

It was all so far away - there was quiet and an untouched feel to the country and I could work as I pleased.

The truth is that things were already going so poorly for me that nothing surprised me anymore. But then the BKA sent 20 agents to search my house.

What instruction the baby brings to the mother!

Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible.

Malice often takes the garb of truth.