My ability has always been to walk out on the stage and see the audience and figure out what they wanna hear.

The desired effect is what you get when you improve your interplanetary funksmanship.

Whoever controls the flow of information dictates our perceptions and perspectives; whoever controls the news shapes our destiny.

Absorb youth and you will be absorbed by youth. Take on new influences without fear and you need not fear what is new. Change the people around you by changing the people around you.

Think! It ain't illegal 'yet.'

I used to skip school to go there when I was growing up in Newark, ... I saw the Flamingos, the Heartbeats, Jackie Wilson, Chuck Jackson.

Look both ways before you cross my mind.

Style is whatever you want to do, if you can do it with confidence.

Funk 'em, just to see the look on their face.

Funk is fun. And it's also a state of mind, ... But it's all the ramifications of that state of mind. Once you've done the best you can, funk it!

Why must I feel like that? Why must I chase the cat?

Fire and water and smoke and incense and chanting and bells and butter and blood: this was a language whose syllables were translated into physical terms

Social media has colonized what was once a sacred space occupied by emptiness: the space reserved for thought and creativity.

Human sexuality has been regulated and shaped by men to serve men's needs.

I seem to have excalibured this knife.

Ambition is never modest. If modesty means to have middling success, then I can only say: I'm not interested.

I’d like to consider Ferrari as a scaled down version of God.

In looking back, I see nothing to regret, and little to correct.

Ah me! the world is full of meetings such as this,--a thrill, a voiceless challenge and reply, and sudden partings after!

[On the press:] I love working with children, and I have learned to be very patient with them.

We must get rid of the silly, sloppy idea that all people are equal in capacity.