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After I saw Kiss on stage, I wanted my show to look like the fourth of July. The persona of Rick James was wild and crazy, sex, drugs and rock and roll.

There's quite a few artists that didn't pop off until they were a little older - Rick James being one.

'Rick' never really fit. I tried for 18 years to make it work, and no one wanted to call me Rick. It should always have been Ricky. That's what it always should have been, so I'm going back to it.

I will say that Rick will probably die before the end of the book. I'll go ahead and put that in print. Nobody's safe. I've almost killed him three times already.

Rick Owens is my desert island designer. I could live in his clothes alone, and I collect Ossie Clark.

I was just totally taken by Michael Jackson when I was a little kid, like everyone else.

Nothing is stranger to man than his own image.

I was kind of a Rickles comic to begin with. I was caustic, and I was abusive and mean to the audience.