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

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

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.

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

I never felt entitled to anything. I'm the hardest worker I know.

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