To me, there's two kinds of music these days. There's ephemeral music, and there's music that has lasting power and depth.

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

If Paul McCartney tells me that so-and-so song is his favorite song, what do I care? What do I care what anybody else says?

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 wanted to show the world, and myself too, what I can do. I came up in the world of Philadelphia soul, but I'm fluent in a lot of languages musically and I like working with different people from different generations.

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

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