I had always been a free spirit, and always gotten what I wanted.

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.

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

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.

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals

Acceptance and Work If you have a job without aggravations you don't have a job.

... caprice is as ruinous as routine.

Managing a league club is like making love to a mermaid... you should always be aiming for a top half finish

Basically, if you're a young Canadian now and Trudeau puts this country into $1.5 trillion in debt, you will never have the opportunity that I had as a young Canadian.

Life depends on change, and renewal.

The Cross is the way to Paradise, but only when it is borne willingly.

When I started shooting it just gives my partners more chances for rebounds. It opens up more room.

The earliest full-length account of a chariot race appears in Book xxiii of the Iliad.

Indifferent souls never part. Impassioned souls part, and return to one another, because they can do no better.