It's just exciting to be part of something that is brand-new.

By 17, I had a whole band that would go in and play. It was called Spontaneous Inventions, after a Bobby McFerrin album.

I used to play pianos in bars. You know in hotels, you'd see guys playing piano with a snifter? That was me, with a painted-on mustache. I was about 15.

I don't care how small the game. I want to win.

For me able to do the records I want to do and not have to worry about this producer or that producer or that trend, I'm not really interested in that.

There's only one thing that everyone in this world has in common: whether you want to love somebody and you want to be loved in return.

People don't like when you point out to them and remind them that they're not very smart.