You're young and you're always in pursuit your young manhood. You're trying to figure out - what does that mean? What does - you know, there's a lot of pressure on young men to sort that out. And, you know, we tend to gravitate towards one-dimensional iconography as far as what it means to be a fully grown man. And you can get lost in so much of it out there.

Most artists I know consider themselves to be phonies, along with the feeling that there's something that you're doing is essential, essential to communicate, and deeply, deeply real.

Poor man wanna be rich, rich man wanna be king, and a king ain't satisfied until he rules everything.

Mister, I ain't a boy, no I'm a man, and i believe in a promised land.

I didn't have a blueprint from my childhood that I could call on, which is an enormous deficit when you're trying to put together a family life. I didn't see a family life where men were thriving inside of it. You know, my dad tended to blame the family for his inability to achieve what he wanted to achieve, you know? So, unfortunately, I was coming from that particular frame of mind.

I don't want to make a record like in the '50s or the '60s or the '70s. I want to make a record like today, that`s right now.

I had no credit cards. I had no checks. I was cash only until I was probably 30 years old.