I think the hardest thing about my life is that I've met so many people all over the world who I love, but they're not friends with each other.

I need to be able to face things.

I don't come from money or an educated family background or any sort of supportive family life, so all of my choices are made on my own.

I got told so many times I needed a manager. For a long time I resisted, and I finally got one so I can pay my mortgage, and it helped me from becoming a homeless person.

People and their religions don't affect me.

Nobody considers a covers record an album.

From folk to tribal to Cab Calloway, Cole Porter, Gershwin to the Rolling Stones, whose first record was all covers, to country-western, bebop, blues, and even the referencing in classic hip hop to cliched love ballads of the '80s or whatever - that is kinda gone, and that's just terrifying to me.