It's important for me to go back into the ghetto, where I'm from. I still get my oxygen from there. I don't live in the ghetto but every time I go back, I'm seeing the same things that I lived. That's one of the things I mean when I say, "My feet back onto the ground."

Social justice has always been a part of my inspiration. For example, when the Vietnam War was going on, I wrote a song about that.

I visit studios. Just to get the feel, the smell, and see what other people are doing. Not only listening to the radio, but going to studios, greeting musicians and artists, just getting a vibe.

In hindsight, I see the great value of family and how it moulded my life and kept me together. So now family means everything to me.

If I don't channel pain into a song, I play my guitar or play the piano or play my drums, or go swimming.

Since we're coming into a rebirth, and there's a consciousness of health, because the disease that is death, we are able to overcome that.

Look at what's happening with scientific things. They have discovered dark matter. They have discovered what is called the God Particle. All that is going to make religion obsolete. These are the things that are amazing, and it's an amazing time to be living in. It's a higher energy that we're going to be coming into.