We're beginning to play God and get into cloning. We give up quickly. Divorce is an easy option. So why not just create your own mate? Synthesize a human being. You get tired of it, turn it off and put it in the closet like the vacuum cleaner.

I really didn't know a lot of rock 'n' roll until I moved to L.A. Before that, when I was in New York, I grew up listening mostly to R&B and soul and jazz.

I was always talking about peace and love, even when I was a kid. That's how I grew up in my family.

We have so many distractions. We're losing the family unit. We're losing the one-on-one. We're becoming extremely narcissistic. And we have to be careful about that. There's a lot to deal with out there.

Today, people are more into the glitz and the glamour of everything. We don't even read the inside of records anymore.

I found it a really refreshing change of pace to suddenly be completely directed. It was a type of collaboration that I don't normally have.

My first guitar, a Fender Jazz Master, I traded it in for a Les Paul Deluxe.