The most important thing for me is the moment, going from one thing to the next and hitting all the different levels and different points that make the whole what it is.

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.

Music, for me, is completely self-indulgent. I write it, I play the instruments, I arrange it, I produce it. It's all about me - as it should be.

It's a trip to have a Greatest Hits record. It's a trip.

I couldn't tell you what I am going to do next 'cause I have no idea, but I am open to anything.

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