I played in a band and attended Grambling University. I think the Mob style funk music I do was patterned after the big college bands. I was also influenced by groundbreaking efforts of Too Short.

To be thus is nothing, but to be safely thus...

Those who get their living by their daily labor . . . have nothing to stir them up to be serviceable but their wants which it is a prudence to relieve, but folly to cure.

I'm happy to have the opportunity to record the records I want to - I'm very aware that that's a privilege.

Faith gives new light to the soul, but it does not put our eyes out; and what God hathgivenusinournature could never be intended as a snare to Religion, or engage us to believe a lie.

Fashion designers are dictators of taste.

My career is chequered. Then I think I got pigeon-holed in humour; Shakespeare is not my thing.

When we have got it, we want something else.

I'm no angel, but I'm no Bo-Beep either.

The drugs were the most important thing to me.

you don't need to be better than any one else you just need to be better than you used to be