That girl is pretty kinky, the girl's a super-freak, I'd really like to taste her.

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.

Good bye" is a good gift when you wave it at me because I refuse to follow a bad advice you gave. Wave it at me and I will show you the door.

The real achievers are those who, in the dreary pit of sacrifice, still smile up at the goal.

The right to justice is something that no one can bestow, nor take away, for it is in one's heart.

To love to teach is one thing, to love those you teach is another.

Sometimes all you need to live one more day is a good reason to stick around.

I find Japanese books quite baffling when I read them in translation. It's only with Haruki Murakami that I find Japanse fiction that I can understand and relate to. He's a very international writer.

We are simply allowing our right to self-determination to be stolen from us.

God will not make himself manifest to cowards

The truth is in the kisses.

The structure serves the people, people don't serve the structure