The James Brown story is not about James Brown. It's about who's getting paid, whose interest is involved, who can squeeze the estate and black history for more.

I was a James Brown junkie as a kid.

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,

The hardest thing about being James Brown is I have to live. I don't have no down time.

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

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