I'm a ghetto man who made good. I never forgot where I came from and who put me on top - God and Jack The Rapper.

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.

No matter where you are, you're always a bit on your own, always an outsider.

Dreaming By Day, Wishing On Stars At Night...

Sheriff, are you suggestin' the victom was kidnapped?""I'm only statin' that, at this time, we have no body, only nonvital body parts...

Wherever the Legionary's hand and soul show up, a garden appears.

I don't need to be wildly famous for my life to make sense.

Concerts are dangerous because anything can happen - which is one of the joys as well.

When I was at school, I was terrible at algebra and arithmetic, but I was always the best at English and literature. And acting, of course.

There were a couple of years where I was skating and acting at the same time.

I was constantly around all those religious images and to me, angels exist. I feel we were definitely guided and helped and I'm always referring to them in my work.

I should probably bequeath the copyrights to my screenplay for Spies Like Us, just in case.