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"So I decided to form a production company with my wife and our partner Diane."

"Terry said he had this new kid and his wife didn't want to live in England. He wanted to tour. He hated being in the studio. Terry liked seeing various bars the world over and getting smashed out of his brain. He was a sort of latent Keith Moon."

"I have a wife and a son, but the gay rumors have started. I guess it's a sign that I'm moving up the ladder."

"My wife and I are affiliated with a temple here in Los Angeles. We feel very close to the congregation and to the rabbi, who happens to be my wife's cousin and who I admire greatly. I talk to him regularly but I consider myself more spiritual than religious."

"I don't think my wife likes me very much, when I had a heart attack she wrote for an ambulance."
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"I think what I came through is great, but my son can take it to another level, not having to fight racism. His mother's a Norwegian and I'm mixed up four or five times, so he can face the world."

"When I'm on stage, I'm trying to do one thing: bring people joy. Just like church does. People don't go to church to find trouble, they go there to lose it."

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

"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."

"Like Christ said, love thee one another. I learned to do that, and I learned to respect and be appreciative and thankful for what I had."

"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."

"I think the best thing about being James Brown is looking at my little son. Hopefully I can make my son a role model to a lot of people."

"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."
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