Mothers love you to the end, and she didn't want to hold me back from my livelihood. So I left for a month and called her every couple of days. I came home and she died 24 hours later.

God forbid you sing about love. It's a lost concept.

The most important thing for me is the moment, going from one thing to the next and hitting all the different levels and different points that make the whole what it is.

Love is the most powerful energy there is.

I have a great time with my band and on the stage we get along well.

I always try to keep the circumstances in my life fresh. I like to change the physical environment I live in, change the people around me and try to experience things for the first time. I think that keeps one on their toes, creatively and spiritually.

I'm half Jewish, I'm half black, I look in-between. I dress funny. I play all these different styles of music on one record. It's like, What is he doing?