The music business is motivated by money. Music is motivated by energy and feelings.

[The Land] is a film that just happens to be directed and written by a Puerto Rican guy with a black dad. It seemed like a very natural, human interaction between people who all just came from one common cesspool of bad luck.

You don't have to believe everything you think.

I started performing at two or three on a tape recorder, one of those little flat recorders where you just push play and record.

We lock ourselves into our own philosophies, our own religions, our own walks of life, and if we fail, we condemn ourselves and then we get sick.

I was the bohemian in my family, the "this is my favorite shoe and I don't care if it has tape around it" kind of person. The tape could become a fashion statement. Or a political statement.

I'm kind of a recluse when it comes to going outside.