I enjoy what people at the concert give me and I can't do it without them, so it's really an exchange of energy that snowballs back and forth and becomes something that's very satisfying and very magical.

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

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.

It's a good time for me to pursue acting, I suppose since I'm enjoying having another medium in which to express myself. I've been getting a great response to my work.

I went to Paris in 1989 when the Americans didn't quite know what to do with me at first. Now, all those years later, it's kind of the same story. Not the same scenario, but kind of the same story.

I fell in love with Paris the first time I went.

I want to do interiors, furniture. I want to do architecture, although I'm not an architect. Nor am I a trained interior designer.