I think that humans have a huge capacity to carry pain and sadness. There are things that haunt us our entire lives; we are unable to let them go. The good times seem almost effervescent and dreamlike in comparison with the times that didn't go so well.

South Sudan is one of the most hard-put places in the world.

Each year, every city in the world that can should have a multiday festival. More people meeting each other, digging new types of music, new foods, new ideas. You want to stop having so many wars? This could be a step in the right direction.

Imagine a 15-year-old kid saying, 'I have two moms - it's cool.' I don't fear that at all.

Miles Davis would have this lineup of all these amazing musicians and one day would just say, 'We're done.' After tons of great records and tickets sold, he said, 'Now I'm going to grow my hair out and play my horn through a wah-wah pedal.' Rather than play it safe, he went on.

I live my life through the prism of capitalism and physiological limits and eventualities.

In blues music, there's a lot of borrowing, so it's often difficult to identify the originator of a song.