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.

Every artistic form has its golden age, and unfortunately I think the golden age for whatever I do probably ended about 1990.

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

Americans think that if you're popular, there must be something wrong with you.

The Daryls House thing has made me into a live musician even more than I ever was, and even in the way I record.

Nobody's going to sell 10 million records by not working hard.