Sometimes religion gets in the way of God.

Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.

It is impossible to meet God without abandon, without exposing yourself, being raw.

It's a privilege to serve the poor, to be servants of noble Africans, but I better belong in the rehearsal room or in the studio with my band. That's where I want to be and I still wake up in the morning with melodies in my head.

I love America and I hate it. I'm torn between the two. I have two conflicting visions of America. One is a kind of dream landscape and the other is a kind of black comedy.

Overcoming my dad telling me that I could never amount to anything is what has made me the megalomaniac that you see today.

There's no retirement for an artist,its your way of living so theres no end to it.