You only live once.

I want to say to you, Help yourself, so you can help someone else.

I used to play one job and have 125 pair of shoes on the floor. What was I doing? I couldn’t wear but one pair.

I used to think like Moses. That knocked me down for a couple years and put me in prison. Then I start thinking like Job. Job waited and became the wealthiest and richest man ever ’cause he believed in God.

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

Retire for what? What would I do? I made my name as a person that is helping. I’m like Moses in the music business.

When I’m on stage, I’m trying to do one thing: bring people joy.

I’d rather be Jack be smart, than Jack be quick. Watch out for the man with the big fat licking stick.

I’m a ghetto man who made good. I never forgot where I came from and who put me on top – God and Jack The Rapper.

When I’m on stage, I’m trying to do one thing: bring people joy. Just like church does. People don’t go to church to find trouble, they go there to lose it.