It's like James Brown used to say... I don't know, but whatever I play it's got to be funky.

I was a James Brown junkie as a kid.

In the '60s, you know, you had this -- you'd have, you know, James Brown on the same show with Alan King, and that was -- that made perfect sense, and it still makes perfect sense,

James Brown died owing me $50,000. But I loved James Brown.

When I started playing, I played in R&B bands. I played James Brown, Wilson Pickett, Otis Redding and all that.

You say 'African music' and you think 'tribal drumming.' But there's a lot of African music that's like James Brown, and a lot, too, that sounds very Hispanic.