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

I think it'd be a real nightmare to put a record out and sell 20 million copies and then that's it.

God is love and if you are ready, he always is.

If you go to Japan, they're still buying vinyl, and they want the education. They know who's playing on what tracks from the '60s and the '70s - who the guitar player is, who the drummer is, who the producer was, what studio it was recorded in. That's how I grew up listening to music. We bought albums. We read the liner notes. It was important to know the whole history behind it.

I was in Paris last year, where there's a great appreciation of many different aspects of African culture and of black culture. The music... the art... whatever... And I kind of went with that.

I've been compared to hundreds of artists, which just goes to show you that I'm not any one thing at all.

When I hear music, it's visual; I see things.