My life is perfect because I accept it as it is.

Change is growth. For me it has been a very spiritual and musical rebirth.

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.

We're beginning to play God and get into cloning. We give up quickly. Divorce is an easy option. So why not just create your own mate? Synthesize a human being. You get tired of it, turn it off and put it in the closet like the vacuum cleaner.

There's certain things in life that I love. One is architecture. And music, culture, food, people. New Orleans has all of that.

Let's look at human interactions. I really believe that there is a way for us to settle disputes nonviolently, using our minds, using all of that was given to us.

You've got your entourage and people that help you make whatever happen around you. Everything's crazy and you're not paying attention to your inner feelings because you're so busy. I couldn't take it.