Pop music, disco music, and heavy metal music is about shutting out the tensions of life, putting it away.

God had to create Disco music so I could be born and be successful.

Disco deserved a better name, a beautiful name because it was a beautiful art form. It made the consumer beautiful. The consumer was the star.

Disco music in the ’70s was just a call to go wild and party and dance with no thought or conscience or regard for tomorrow.

Funk, I don’t think I have anything to do with funk. I’ve never considered myself funky.

I’ve always gravitated towards the beats, obviously. And when I was growing up, I always loved funk music or even – dare I say it – disco.

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

Funk is the absence of any and everything you can think of, but the very essence of all that is. And saying that, I’m saying funk is anything that we create in our minds that we want to do, what we want to be, but we don’t have the resources.