I got private lessons in keyboard at Julliard, before New England Conservatory of Music in Boston.

We used to have a main female vocalist. But she had a baby. Now we do the singing ourselves.

People like my voice and say I can sing, but I don't like microphones in front of my face: it distracts me.

Usually, I just do what I want, because I got it that way.

The Pigtronix Envelope Phaser pedal is a definite 'must have' for your Funk recipe cookbook......it adds definite Funkaliciousness to your WOO stew.

Providence School of Art students used to sneak into P Funk concerts.

As far as arrangements after the basic track is cut, if I'm writing a horn arrangement or playing strings, I might arrange that, plan that out. Other times, I'll just sit and roll tape.

I was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, and no one had ever taught anybody that young, back in those days.

Prince presented us at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Woo means the ability to entice someone or something to get what you want. My first solo album was called: All the Woo of the Universe, which was titled by George Clinton.

My mother wanted me to be a concert pianist.

Hilly raises her voice about three octaves higher when she talks to coloured people. Elizabeth smiles like she's talking to a child, although certainly not her own. I am starting to notice things.

Both my parents are Scottish, and although I grew up in Canada after moving over, all of my family are proud to be Scots.

Two half hitches around the horn will hold the devil as sure as you're born.

I always wear my evil eye necklace to ward off bad karma. I always wear one to protect me.

I have to finish it in order to know whether it deserves to survive.

The dream is a world in which anyone who has anything bad happen to them has a chance of getting their story uploaded, being seen, being watched.

We live by reposing trust in each other.

We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.

When you can’t find someone to follow, you have to find a way to lead by example.

If you can't be the best than be different