We weren't put here to be miserable. We were put here to do the best we can, and we should take our energy and improve our state of being.

My mom and dad would take me all over. One night we'd be at the Apollo watching James Brown, and then I'd be at the Joffrey Ballet. It was that kind of scene.

We weren't put here to be miserable. We were put here to do the best we can, and we should take our energy and improve our state of being.

God gave me the gift to be able to play instruments and I have to play.

We're getting so pulled in by computers and technology, and our kids have their face in the computers all day. The human relationship is being diminished by this.

I am still into the people I listened to growing up, so I completely remember what is like to be a fan, I haven't changed.

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.