Sometimes I feel like I'm a preacher as well, 'cause I can really get into an audience.

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.

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.

I've been knocked down a lot of times.

I named my new son James Joseph Brown II. I think he's going to be a lot better than I was.