I just live one day at a time.

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'm made of.

Funkers are people who dig the funk; Little funkers, Big funkers, Old funkers, Young funkers, Foxy funkers, Mother funkers, Papa funkers.

Whether you're rich or poor, life's still cold-blooded.

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

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

If anything I consider myself non-violent. I'm from the hippy era, peace, love, groovy.

I'm still James Johnson. Rick James is a stage name. James Johnson keeps Rick James on the ground... Kind of sort of.

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

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

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 spiritual pain.

There are so many worse things than death. Not to be loved or not to be able to love: that is worse.

Personal power is a feeling, like life.

The common people, on the whole, are still living in the world of absolute good and evil from which the intellectuals have long since escaped.

Nothing is so remote from us as the thing which is not old enough to be history and not new enough to be news.

Scientific man is already on the moon, and yet we are still living with the moral concepts of Homer.

Barcelona is now in the past. I was sick and boxed in, and that's understandable why I lost.

I decline to discuss, under compulsion, where I have sung, and who has sung my songs, and who else has sung with me, and the people I have known.

I will never be able to say what is in my heart because words fail us, because it is in our nature to protect, because there are times when what is public and what is private must be discerned.

You don't pay the price for success, you enjoy the benefits of success.