In fact, everything I do is about the conceptualizing and realization of a piece of work, whether it's the recording or the performance side.

I feel that what I do is always contemporary with the society I'm living in... If I wanted to explain myself, that's how I'd explain myself: that I'm a diarist.

Speak in extremes, it'll save you time.

There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It's always been my way of expressing what for me is inexpressible by any other means.

Questioning my spiritual life has always been germane to what I was writing. Always. It's because I'm not quite an atheist and it worries me. There's that little bit that holds on: 'Well, I'm almost an atheist. Give me a couple of months.'

Never bored, so I'll never get old

Funk, I don't think I have anything to do with funk. I've never considered myself funky.