I think what I came through is great, but my son can take it to another level, not having to fight racism. His mother's a Norwegian and I'm mixed up four or five times, so he can face the world.

I think the best thing about being James Brown is looking at my little son. Hopefully I can make my son a role model to a lot of people.

I used to think like Moses. That knocked me down for a couple years and put me in prison. Then I start thinking like Job. Job waited and became the wealthiest …

I thank God for the Apollo Theater. When I saw those people, that was the awards.

I am a wife-made man

My father was a proctologist; my mother was an abstract artist. That's how I view the world.

'Naturally,' observed Nikolai Petrovich, 'you were born here, so everything is bound to strike you with a special -' 'Really, Daddy, it makes absolutely no dif…