I love antique architecture, so if I have any indulgences, I have owned and renovated and reconstructed a lot of old houses.

I grew up in a very racially integrated place called Pottstown. It was an agricultural / industrial town which has since become a suburb of Philadelphia. I grew up basically in a black neighborhood.

Success and failure are equally surprising.

Being at college, I think that's the time when you really start searching for things outside yourself.

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.

I have to say I have never been comfortable with somebody else telling me what to do - in any way.

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.