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

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.

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.

My mother wanted me to be a concert pianist.

We must begin thinking like a river if we are to leave a legacy of beauty and life for future generations.

Radio was supposed to die in 1945, when TV came along. It turns out that radio grew and grew, and it's a bigger business today than it has ever been.

If you place the imperfect next to the perfect, people will see the difference between the one and the other. But if you offer the imperfect alone, people are only too apt to be satisfied by it.

I think the pleasure of form is that you have a companion with you besides all the poetry you have ever read.

She could only write with him at night and she was wasting her days just sitting around. So he thought I could write with her during the day. And that was Carole King.

The Sherpas play a very important role in most mountaineering expeditions, and in fact many of them lead along the ridges and up to the summit.

The more completely you concentrate, the stronger your mind becomes.

Sometimes there is nothing you can do, and in those times, you must do something anyway.

We unified, we looked past and we're impervious to the constant criticism of naysayer.

My grandmother was an English teacher for a while. And she stressed to me the importance of reading, being able to articulate well.