Race in this country is still the elephant in the room that no one wants to discuss.

I never sit down to write or say, "Today, I have to record something." I wait to hear it and then I go for it.

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.

We've always just gotten up there and played. We don't have any dancers, we don't have all that stuff going on, we just get up there and play.

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

People feel they have to live that stereotypical lifestyle in order to be a rock star. You don't have to shoot heroin and act a certain way to be a rock and roll musician.

I always try to keep the circumstances in my life fresh. I like to change the physical environment I live in, change the people around me and try to experience things for the first time. I think that keeps one on their toes, creatively and spiritually.