I believe everybody is spiritual and no one is any more spiritual than anyone else.

Interplay and interaction are the integral parts of music - they're as important as the notes.

In a way records are like paintings. Instead of using paints and brushes we use sounds and instruments.

There are two kinds of success. One is musical or artistic and the other is commercial.

When the music arrives in my mind, it gives me the direction and the form at the same time. It's integrated into the music itself.

Question: Does it frost Jackson, Jesse Jackson, that someone like Obama, who fits the stereotype blacks once labeled as an Oreo -- a black on the outside, a white on the inside -- that an Oreo should be the beneficiary of the long civil rights struggle which Jesse Jackson spent his lifetime fighting for?

Absolutely, all guitars are different. You can go into a store and grab five guitars, all the same model, and even though they look identical they're not identical. They play differently, they feel a bit different and they sound slightly different.