I was born with a natural gift. My mother recognized the talent.

We used to have a main female vocalist. But she had a baby. Now we do the singing ourselves.

I got private lessons in keyboard at Julliard, before New England Conservatory of Music in Boston.

People like my voice and say I can sing, but I don't like microphones in front of my face: it distracts me.

Usually, I just do what I want, because I got it that way.

The Pigtronix Envelope Phaser pedal is a definite 'must have' for your Funk recipe cookbook......it adds definite Funkaliciousness to your WOO stew.

Providence School of Art students used to sneak into P Funk concerts.

As far as arrangements after the basic track is cut, if I'm writing a horn arrangement or playing strings, I might arrange that, plan that out. Other times, I'll just sit and roll tape.

I was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, and no one had ever taught anybody that young, back in those days.

Prince presented us at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Woo means the ability to entice someone or something to get what you want. My first solo album was called: All the Woo of the Universe, which was titled by George Clinton.

We knew it was going to be difficult to get to the moon. We didn't know how difficult.

I'm proud to be Parisian, proud to be a BANLIEUSARD. Which means a man from the suburbs, from the streets, from the outskirt.

Dumbledore watched her fly away, and as her silvery glow faded he turned back to Snape, and his eyes were full of tears. "After all this time?" "Always," said Snape.

I'm really enamored of the potato in all its guises.

He's one of the most coachable players out there.

God's love for me is perfect because it's based on Him not on me. So even when I failed He kept loving me.

No man can avail himself of the forces of his creative imagination, while dissipating them.

These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world.

Realise when you are 'middle aged' you have a chance for a whole second career, another love, another life.

Greediness of getting more deprives... the enjoyment of what it had got.