I'm not really a strange person or anything, so if there's music I like, usually there's other people who like it too.

I do think that when you make repeated mistakes, it's usually because you're just not coming to grips with something.

White people don't sing together very often, and when they do, it's about the celebrity of the song. The singing at my shows is all about harmony.

Next door, there's an old man who lived to his nineties and one day passed away in his sleep. And his wife, she stayed for a couple of days and passed away. I'm sorry, I know that's a strange way to tell you that I know we belong.

My job is to be some sort of music/lyric psychic, to figure out that that's the right song to not fight the lyric.

With a song, it only takes a couple of minutes to go back to the beginning and try it again to see if it works. The novel freaks me out because, what if you get into the eighth chapter and think, 'Let's go to the top and see if this works again? It's going to take me three weeks.' I'm in awe of that.

I've gotten to the point where I realize that I need to tell my truth in music and not walk around blabbing my mind.