If you take a bunch of superstars and put them in a room where they don't have their assistants and entourage, it's funny to see what happens.

What I do isn't black music, it's just my music.

Most artists try to avoid cliches, but it's pretty hard to avoid them if you yourself end up being one.

Around 1974, I graduated into the occult, and spent a sold six or seven years immersed in the Kabala and the Chaldean, Celtic, and Druidic traditions I also became fascinated with Aleister Crowley, the nineteenth-century magician who shared these beliefs.

As I got older, my voice got better.

If Paul McCartney tells me that so-and-so song is his favorite song, what do I care? What do I care what anybody else says?

I was just like a 21st century person waiting to be born, and this is the medium that I thrive in. And I feel stronger now than I did any time since I've been a teenager - I mean, musically, creatively.