A lot of the way I sing is playing off other musicians. It's what I love to do the most.

Stevie Wonder always smells so good... I'm like a DEA dog, I can smell people a block away!

The challenge is always as a writer, is this going to work, because it's a very intimate process, and I tend to be very introverted and insular, and when I write, it's in my head.

Wherever there's a human being there's going to be somebody that tries to hold you back.

Sex and drugs were simply not discussed in our culture at that time.

When I was a teenager, I was fat. I was shy. I wore glasses. I had a big eyebrow and hair all over my body. They were years of torture.

There are certain realities we must speak of with our children that were not present when I was a child.