I want to sit in my own sorrow, cry it out, talk to God, and say, 'Give me strength, wisdom.'
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I'm 63 now, and I need to take care of myself so that I can continue to perform at my best.
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If we start putting music out constantly where people don't think no more, people go crazy. We're gonna lose the love of heart, of soul. And if the world lose that, I think the world is doomed.
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Honestly, I've been excited for music ever since I was 16 years old. I'll always love the music.
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James Brown came from that hard, rough life that I came from. He took the blues and added rhythm to it. And he always had the most funkiest band; I liked the way he took his words and mixed it in with the band.
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Give your love and never change. Be willing to die for the love you carry inside.
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With James Brown, I just learn the lyrics and then get out there and get funky with it and let my spirit free. But doing Charles Bradley, it's a lot of true, intimate words coming out of me that show me the picture inside myself.
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What I hope is if you turn on the news tonight, I want to find a way to stop all this corruption I see.
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I was 14, and I left on my own. Living in a subway train, and police used to come in with a nightstick and say, 'You can't sleep here.' I'd get up and go across the street, get on another train, and go back the other way.