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.

My mother wanted me to be a concert pianist.

With my sometimes blunt indecent vocabulary & very vivid imagination, I wonder if I should be writing "other" kinds of content.

Give the agent something easy to reject, something to justify his authority - that way they won't look too closely at the rest of your things.

And then simultaneously I don't think they're asking you to necessarily write in stone that this is what you're going to do or what you have to do.

Everything is a battlefield. If you fight with anger, you are part of the problem. If you fight with joy, you're part of the solution.

We have to renegotiate our trade deals, and we have to stop these countries from stealing our companies and our jobs.

My drive is still cool, it's not like how when I first began. I don't think anyone's drive is the same.

If we are proud of our talents we betray our lack of gratitude to God.

Headlines twice the size of the events.

Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.

Father-daughter has a lot of layers, I find.