The hardest thing about being James Brown is I have to live. I don't have no down time.

Sometimes I feel like I'm a preacher as well, 'cause I can really get into an audience.

The one thing that can solve most of our problems is dancing.

Retire for what? What would I do? I made my name as a person that is helping. I'm like Moses in the music business.

'...it is not when he is working in his office but when he is lying idly on the sand that his soul utters, 'Life is beautiful.'' (p. 2)

A life's work should be based on love.

Life on the road can get a little one-dimensional. I didn't want to reach 40 and have to say all I'd done was look out the window of a tour bus and get drunk.