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.

One day we're going to watch people fight to the death, like Roman times. Instead of being in a coliseum, we're going to watch it on TV.

I knew what I wanted to do from the time I was 5.

There's certain things in life that I love. One is architecture. And music, culture, food, people. New Orleans has all of that.

I am trying to get closer to God.

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.

Beyond [Barack Obama] having made history as the first African-American president, I hope that he gets re-elected for what he does while in office, not for his skin color. I certainly believe he has the capacity.