The secret is planning your work and working your plan. If you don't know where you are going, how will you know when you arrive? You can't stumble upon your destination.

I have three dads: my biological father, God and Bob Dylan.

It's easy to learn but takes a lifetime to master.

I didn't really even think of recording under my own name for a long time. I thought, 'I've got the rest of my life to do that.'

I'm one of those people that you have to keep your eye on or I'll wander off into the woods and forget to come back.

I probably could have a hip-hop-style entourage of 40 people coming with me to the club or whatever, and I don't do that. And I think sometimes maybe I should. It just makes things easier - if you don't like being by yourself, maybe just don't do it ever.

Any man with a microphone can tell you what he loves the most.