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.

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

Not easy, not at all for everyone to see the beauty of one's self/soul. It's all about money, nothing else.

Love is selflessly honest, even if it comes from deception.

I agree that there are some bad apples on Wall Street. I spent about ten years exposing corporate and financial fraud for 'Barron's' magazine and I found a lot to write about.

I'm a liberal and I'm left of Gandhi and I don't like Trump.

Funnily enough, when I originally went in for my screen test, that set was already built.

I didn't want to go to sleep knowing I would just wake up in the morning.

Nothing is as strong as the heart of a volunteer.

I sit at my door, smoking a cigarette and sipping my absinthe, and I enjoy every day without a care in the world

I guess we're all just wired different. I just got to the point where I got tired of people telling me what I can and can't do in my life.

The daintiest last, to make the end most sweet.