The radios are going to dictate. That's another fight. That's another story there. I wish they just let it be.

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.

I AM NOT QUICK, NOT STRONG AS A BRICK, ME NEVER HAPPINESS PICK, IN MY DECISION I STICK, PEOPLE TRY TO TRICK, BUT MY HEART IS THICK.

We was on our way to fame, got matching suits and Beatle boots.

In most cases, people, even wicked people, are far more naive and simple-hearted than one generally assumes. And so are we.

In middle age we are apt to reach the horrifying conclusion that all sorrow, all pain, all passionate regret and loss and bitter disillusionment are self-made

People have presences, both online and in real life. You can choose to show everything, meaning all sides of you, or you can choose to be selective.

In our long and obsessive passion for youth, we have - more than any other modern society - avoided direct approach to age and to dying by denying them in word, in fact, and - above all - in worth.

If a picture wasn't going very well, I'd put a puppy in it.

I couldn't spell anything. I couldn't remember anything, but I could go to a movie and I knew who starred in it, who directed it, everything.

We have endorsements of our plan from key leaders within the environmental movement. That doesn't mean that it includes the whole environmental movement.

The superiority of the American system is eloquently proved by the pressure of people who want to crash our borders.