Onstage, I don't feel any glory from people clapping in the audience, but when they're pushing me to do something new that feels good.

We were like a white family from the 1920s or something. My parents had this bizarre, different way of looking at things from the people that surrounded us. I went to an all-Mexican grade school and an all-black high school, and not many people in those places liked the same stuff as me.

You can't do better than that.

Onstage, I don't feel any glory from people clapping in the audience, but when they're pushing me to do something new that feels good.

I can't imagine being anything creative in a major town because everybody's doing the same exact thing you're doing. How can you not get confused about what you yourself are doing?

Every time there's a list of the 100 greatest records of all time, all those albums were recorded in two days. Hardly any of them took a year, I'll tell you. In this day and age, I think it's important that people know that.

It's harder to put yourself in a place where you could easily be seen as a fake. But that's more interesting to me.