My mother said I was a little odd as a kid. I was alone a lot, but I didn't feel alone.

I wanted to make the album I always needed to make. I had to say the things I never could.

If you think you're hearing something and you can't think what it is. If you feel a quiet longing lift your heart into the wind. There you'll find my kindred spirit. There you'll meet me as a friend. It is just a kindred spirit and a song to let you in.

Sometimes my mind boggles. It's so deep my mind actually boggles

I learned jazz; that comes from blues. I learned rock; that comes from blues. I learned pop; that comes from blues. Even dance, that comes from blues, with the answer-and-response.

It's that anonymous person who meanders through the streets and feels what's happening there, feels the pulse of the people, who's able to create.

My torso is short, but my arms are really long and gangly and my legs and my neck, and my feet and hands are really long, and I look like a duck.