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

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 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 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.

Yes, I travel in unusual circles. George Osborne and his wife Frances are my cousins.

Any song I don't feel good about, I shelve. Anything you ever hear me sing, it's because I want to.

Smokey Robinson is one of my heroes as a singer and songwriter, a major influence on my own music from the very start.