I'll just tell you the way it is. You ask me what time it is and I'm gonna tell you how to build a clock.

Every time I went into the studio some engineer tried to impress me with how they're going to capture my sound with all kinds of tricks. But they limited the sound and never allowed me to play how I felt.

Music is an attitude. It's a sensation to the average person, to the human being. And keep it simple, stupid. That's always been my theory.

I grew a love for helpless, defenseless things. People would give me lions and jaguars. I had cheetahs, monkeys.

I'll never die. I'll just explode, right there before your eyes, onstage.

I can play every instrument there is, every horn, I've played all the saxes and trumpets and everything and keyboards.

I'm constantly being influenced by the soul that's directly in front of me.