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

Everybody who I ever cared about has told me that they like my music: Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney, Al Green, The Spinners, Smokey Robinson. Everybody that matters.

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.

I think Philadelphia has been underrated over the years as a musical region.

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

I have an English family and I've lived in England for years.

Like all soul singers, I grew up singing in church but sometimes I would leave early and sit in the car listening to gospel band, The Blind Boys of Alabama. Hearing their lead singer Clarence made me connect the idea of church and show business and see how I could make a career singing music that stirred the soul.