The power and the potency of music will transcend any one person's opinion about it.

People always - when you rise, whenever you're getting to a point where you're a very big band, which is a very rare thing, there are always going to be people that aren't going to like you.

Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.

Shakira is a new friend, but I love her dearly already. She's so sweet and adorable and hilarious.

Normal is enormously susceptible to swinging with the gusts of politics and history. Disguised as scientific and fixed, it is subjective and protean. That is why I used the word normative above, a term derived from statistics, simply meaning what most people do.

I spend most of my life naked. In fact, I often have to be told by the people around me that it's inappropriate to be as naked as I am.

And I think I have a distinct voice.