I want to get away, I want to fly away. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Beyond [Barack Obama] having made history as the first African-American president, I hope that he gets re-elected for what he does while in office, not for his skin color. I certainly believe he has the capacity.

Keeping grounded and keeping focused and keeping calm and thankful, that comes from God.

I just live my life and try to be present.

I've woken up from dreams and the whole song is there. I'm listening to it in my dreams. I consciously have to wake myself up and get a tape recorder because I hear it like a record.

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