I'm picking and choosing in terms of the stress factor. If it's not fun, I'm not going to do it.

I would make far more money if every song were my own, but I don't write to fill up the album with my songs.

I say if it's going to be done, let's do it. Let's not put it in the hands of fate. Let's not put it in the hands of someone who doesn't know me. I know me best. Then take a breath and go ahead.

If you have your own agenda and your own style and you don't easily conform to what the masses are doing, you're looked upon as being difficult. Whereas, I think of it as just being an individual.

My father worked on assembly lines in Detroit while I was growing up. Every day, I watched him do what he needed to do to support the family. But he told me, 'Life is short. Do what you want to do.'

You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.

If I could be doing anything, I'd be laying on the floor in my birthday suit eating junk food and watching something dumb on TV.