I've been meeting with Live Nation CEO Michael Rapino for years, trying to figure out how to fix the concert industry. We're all so overpaid. It's ridiculous. People stopped going to concerts because they can't afford them. The Rolling Stones are charging $650 per ticket! That just makes me speechless. I love the Stones, but I won't be attending.

I have a couple of guys to do my laundry. Just because I'm lazy and rich.

I don't sit in my room and hide the whole time. I think people know my spirit is real.

And there's a feeling you get from making music that is unlike anything else in the world.

I didn't want to go out and change anything. I just wanted to make the music that was part of my background, which was rock and blues and hip-hop.

Bringing people together is one of my favorite things... I believed that's what a rock 'n' roll Jesus would really do - bring people together through music.

Everything I've done in my career has started in and around Detroit, you know, the metro area and Michigan.