Rick James Trying Quotations

I'm trying to change the root of funk, trying to make it more progressive, more melodic and more lyrically structured.

I mean, Rick James was just a man-made image, the image I created. Just trying to live Rick James almost killed me.

I have some white customers but not as many as I'd like. I think some people feel intimidated walking into a barbershop like this, but I'm trying to change that. When people come in here and they ask 'do you cut white folks' hair?' I always say I cut hair period. Of all colors, white, green blue, whatever you got.

I don't try to hide sex in my music. Music is very sexual. I don't hide it.

I try to make the audience forget all their problems -- for an hour and a half or so get them out of themselves, and space, and time, and consciousness.

You can't outdo 'Street Songs' and I didn’t even try. [It] had that special magic that comes with timing and good vibrations and you can't even try to capture that exactly again.