I've done a lot of things to become what I've become, out to create and establish a musical form and I call it movie.

And I keep on fighting for the things I want. Though I know that when you're dead you can't. But I'd rather be a free man in my grave, than living as a puppet or a slave.

My role is the shepherd's role. The shepherd is the one who opens the gate and allows the flock to go through and whoever opens the gate has to close it, and the gate is not yet closed.

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.

Good thinking brings good feeling and good feeling brings good thinking.

I have not become the artist I believe I am. I want to become a stadium act. I'm not done at all.

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.