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

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 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.

Music, it requires more than brawn. It requires a lot of heart. You gotta put love in there.

A man with a club [bat] is a law-maker, a man to be obeyed, but not necessarily conciliated.

There is an end to everything.

You look at 30 Seconds to Mars, and you don't think, 'Ooh, I bet they're angry.' No one really does anger these days. I suppose it's a turn-off.

A kindness is never wasted

I hate watching myself, as do a lot of actors.

If you don't want to be in a story, don't know a writer.

Life is accepting what is and working from that.

I am neither pro- nor anti-gun. I am gun-conscious.

If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn't swim.