When I'm on stage, I'm trying to do one thing: bring people joy. Just like church does. People don't go to church to find trouble, they go there to lose it.

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.

Blessed Saviour, blameless LORD.

The word ‘believe’ is an important factor in you securing your success.

No one gets up after death-there is no applause-there is only silence and some second-hand clothes, and that's death.

In a balanced viewpoint that includes both masculine and feminine perspective, healing is seen not as a technique, but as a process.

Throughout my life, my mom has been the person that I've always looked up to.

Night, the mother of fear and mystery, was coming upon me.

All I have is natural ability.

Now, some of the most dangerous places for women to be in the world are modern, Western, rich European countries. Why? One reason. Islamic immigration - it's got to stop.

Erroneous assumptions can be disastrous.

Christ is most concerned with the direction in which you habitually are going and not with a spasmodic eruption either good or bad.