James Brown

“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.”

“Michael Jackson has a very good heart. He was crying when he was giving me the award, 'cause his mind went back over the early days.”

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

“When God took it, he accepted it; when he brought it back, he accepted it. That's what's happening with me.”

“I got a wife who likes expensive things, so she takes all the cash.”

“Sometimes you struggle so hard to feed your family one way, you forget to feed them the other way, with spiritual nourishment. Everybody needs that.”

“You can take care of yourself, and God helps those who help themselves.”

“I'm not going to be joining ZZ Top. You know they can't play my stuff. It's too complicated.”

“You can't teach others if you are living the same way.”

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

“I was stillborn. The midwives laid me aside, thought I was really gone. I laid there about an hour, and they picked me back up and tried again, 'cause my body was still warm. The Good Lord brought me back.”

“I had to tell about my colonic, which expresses the fact why I'm so neat today as opposed to a few years ago. I never knew that the weight made that much difference.”