What does music mean to me? I don't think I would really be much without it, without it coming through me. It's my means of communication, my means of growth, my means of transportation from one point in my life to another.

I think a lot of people have lost respect for the individual, you know, the individual, the person who doesn't conform.

I'm more like an oven than a microwave.

Whereas I want everything to be peaceful during a birth, I take the total opposite approach when I'm helping someone come to terms with leaving this place - I play Richard Pryor records.

I believed in myself, and I've always worked very, very hard as an artist, and I am an artist in every sense of the word.

I'm pretty mutable as a human being.

Breathing becomes really easy when you're laughing. It kick starts that feeling of joy.