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

Traditionally, duos get accused of lots of things.

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

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.

I definitely dislike pomposity and artifice. I hope that I'm not that. Once I write a song, it belongs to the world, and the way people perceive it, it's cool.

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

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.