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

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.

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

I just live one day at a time.

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.

Innovation is about moving forward. If you are not moving forward, you are moving backward. There is no standing still.

The promise of Social Security was reflected in President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's inter-generational compact that rewards hard work and provides retirement security.

When I found out that coffins are padded, I stopped fearing death.

Each culture has its own characteristic manner of locomotion, sitting, standing, reclining, and gesturing.

You learn at your best when you have something you care about and can get pleasure in being engaged in.

Courage is not how a man stands or falls, but how he gets back up again

Resolved, never to speak evil of anyone, so that it shall tend to his dishonor, more or less, upon no account except for some real good.

It's starting to feel good, although I don't like feeling too good - that's not where my comedy comes from.

The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart.

It's the gravity that shapes the large scale structure of the universe, even though it is the weakest of four categories of forces