I know that's blasphemous when you are from Detroit, but I was never a fan of Motown stuff. I don't care for the production much.

I dabbled in things like Howlin' Wolf, Cream and Led Zeppelin, but when I heard Son House and Robert Johnson, it blew my mind. It was something I'd been missing my whole life. That music made me discard everything else and just get down to the soul and honesty of the blues.

People have sort of a problem trying to see an end to a situation as being positive or romantic.

I really don't like to take the easy way out, if I can help it, on anything I do, I like to really make it a challenge. I don't know how to create by taking the easy routes. I've tried, you know, I've tried to let myself, but I always struggle to compensate.

I think the media's the kind of thing where the truth doesn't win, because it's no fun. The truth's no fun.

It's funny because when you do become successful, you're forced to look backwards and try to crawl back into the womb where you first started to create.

The day that music is taken for free by the majority is the day that the phrase "sell out" doesn't exist any more.