For me a watch is a really beautiful instrument. I don't so much care what time it is but I do love watches, and I love how they're constructed.

If you ask a hundred people, they all give you different answers.

I'm so happy. I am able to see the world just by making music, just by doing the thing that I loved doing when I was five years old.

I went to Paris in 1989 when the Americans didn't quite know what to do with me at first. Now, all those years later, it's kind of the same story. Not the same scenario, but kind of the same story.

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 mother always told me to embrace both sides of my background. And she also taught me one very useful thing when I was going to first grade. She said, "You're Bahamian and African-American on one side, and Russian-Jewish on the other. You're no more one than the other, and it's beautiful that you have all this. It makes your life all the more rich. But society will see you only as black."

For the last few years, it's been so chic for everybody to be miserable. Like if you're in with the cool crowd, you can't be happy.