The way I was raised and the people that I grew up around for the most part were very humble people, and I appreciate all that they taught me, and their energy and their magnanimity help keep me grounded.

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

I honestly don't remember how I wrote or did the songs. Or the sessions. They all become very much a blur. And each album is like that. It may be that there are different locations, it may take longer, shorter, or whatever, but it's always something that just happened.

If I were white, I'd get less criticism.

You can't even sing or play an instrument, so you just scream instead. You're living for an image, so you got five hundred women in your bed.

My dream is to become a farmer. Just a Bohemian guy pulling up his own sweet potatoes for dinner.

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.