"I didn't even think I would make it that long. I thought I would drug overdose, like Jimi Hendrix. I thank God every day to even be here."
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"I was going to get drafted, but I didn't really want to go into the Army."
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"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."
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"I feel that I have to say something in a song and that it's not just enough to lay down the music."
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"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."
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"I mean, Rick James was just a man-made image, the image I created. Just trying to live Rick James almost killed me."
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"My music is pretty honest. I can't rap on science fiction. Punk is from the street."
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"Anybody that's old and closed-minded does not like Rick James... They don't like the fact that I'm free and I'm wide open."
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"Prison was a blessing. Going to prison was the greatest thing that happened to me. It showed me that I wasn't infallible. It showed me that I was just human. It showed me that I can be back with my ghetto brothers I grew up with and have a good time. It taught me to cool out. It taught me patience. It taught me that I didn't ever want to lose my freedom. It taught me that drugs bring on the devil. It taught me to grow up."
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"I'm finally locked into the now, and it's great."
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"I'm really not tailored for responsibility."
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