"The one thing that can solve most of our problems is dancing."
"I taught them everything they know, but not everything I know. "
"I've outdone anyone you can name - Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500. "
"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."
“I don't really care what people think, ... I just do my own thing. ... I like being loud and letting people know I'm there.”
"I only got seventh-grade education, but I have a doctorate in funk, and you know how I put that to use."
