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

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.

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.

The narrator, I think, must succeed in frightening himself before he can think of frightening his reader…

I touch your book and dream of our odyssey in the supermarket and feel absurd.

I am a typical Libran. I tend to see two sides of everything.

I want you to invent it. I want you to have that skill. To create your own reality. Your own set of laws. I want to try and teach you that.

There's no justice in this world.

Often those who are denied rights are least empowered to bring about the changes they seek.

I've never had the right words to describe my life, and now that I've entered my story, I need them more than ever.

Whoever marries the spirit of the times must soon become a widower.

It is difficult at times to repress the thought that history is about as instructive as an abattoir.

If you reach the people nobody wants, God will give you the people everybody wants.