James Brown is important because he decorates the clock correctly and he's good with lower mathematics. Don't get me wrong - he's good.

I was a James Brown junkie as a kid.

James Brown died owing me $50,000. But I loved James Brown.

In the '60s, you know, you had this -- you'd have, you know, James Brown on the same show with Alan King, and that was -- that made perfect sense, and it still makes perfect sense,

When I started playing, I played in R&B bands. I played James Brown, Wilson Pickett, Otis Redding and all that.

James Brown became my father. He would talk to me the way a father talked to a son. He became the father I never had.