I was just totally taken by Michael Jackson when I was a little kid, like everyone else.

When you train a horse on a daily basis, you're a part of the horse's movement, you're a part of his motion. Everything that the horse experiences is coming from you. There's a total connection -- a true friendship -- and the connection touches the soul completely.

Yeah, I can't separate the art from the music and the music from the art. I think that stems from going to school for film first, and kind of stumbling onto music as my career.

I'm not a quitter. I believe in following things through.

It's almost embarrassing how well-behaved I was, which is probably why I do things like spit water on myself onstage as an adult.

I plead total ignorance to Led Zeppelin. I am totally in the dark about them.

Working pretty much nonstop as an artist, the hardest thing is to know what to do with yourself when you have some time off. You struggle with yourself to take a vacation.