I'm somebody who listens to a lot of funk, a lot of James Brown, and I want to be somebody who contributes all that energy to the mainstream.
Funkers are people who dig the funk; Little funkers, Big funkers, Old funkers, Young funkers, Foxy funkers, Mother funkers, Papa funkers.
Funk never dies. It is eternal. It just smells a little different from time to time.
I don't do drugs anymore... than, say, the average touring funk band.
When I leave a room, it's gonna be footprints of funk wherever I stepped, because I'm a soul-funk crusader.
I'm always surprised that I'm still around funk and that people are still into it.
Funk is fun. And it's also a state of mind, ... But it's all the ramifications of that state of mind. Once you've done the best you can, funk it!
I'm really into California art from the '60s.
Flow Tribe is a great bunch of New Orleans guys who have that funkiness to them.
The bottom line with a lot of bands that funk is being applied to is that they don't really listen to funk and aren't versed in funk. Like, you know, Gordon Lightfoot.
Whenever I think about funk music, it has a look - and that's how it sounds.
If some people don't like funk music then it's just the wrong time for them. They will get it. It's addictive.
My plays are for the kind of black people who relate to funk music, to Parliament-Funkadelic. When those guys get out of a spaceship - the idea that black people are from outer space, there's a poetic truth to that. We are this vast people.
