You can start something, do it, and believe that that's what you're doing, but then the inspiration comes and it's like, "Nope, this is what it is."

If you listen to a lot of old funk records, the drums are really small. But you don't perceive it like that because the groove is so heavy.

I'm just as white as I am black, and I'm just as Russian Jew as I am West Indian.

My mother gave lots of good advice and had a lot to say. As you get older, you realize everything she said was true.

That's a big gift when people say to you that a song helped them or brought them to some place in their life where they needed to be.

I'm very much about the environment, I'm very much about health, about being able to, at the very least, eat organic, whole foods that are healthy for us. And then, of course, everyone being able to eat and at least have a humane way to live. There's enough for everybody, but unfortunately, there's a lot of greed and a lot of ego.

You can be around 100 people and be completely alone. People don't realize what it's really like.