My way of thinking as I approach any human being on this planet is, 'What are you doing now?' That's what interests me. I don't come at anybody with a whole bunch of assumptions.

I mean, the genuine roots of culture is folk music.

I'm not going to pontificate and tell you to execute your government at dawn, but it wouldn't be a bad idea.

I'm not blowing my own trumpet here, but I made a rap song 20 years ago with Afrika Bambaataa.

I do use my music to entertain myself, as indeed I use other people's music.

Periods of inactivity, I don't know such things. I'm consistently writing. My life is busy. It always is. There are hardly any moments for self-indulgent laziness.

Any kind of history you read is basically the winning side telling you the others were bad.