God forbid you sing about love. It's a lost concept.

I'm a very open and loving person. My whole thing has been "let love rule" since my first album. I'm about unity and peace and God.

When I hear music, it's visual; I see things.

I'm really happy about American Woman, it brought the Guess Who back. They started gigging again and got their song out on commercials.

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.

It's like a dream to come to Spain and stay for a couple of years and get somebody to teach me Spanish music.

What motivates it is life. Life is everything. Life influences my music and brings it forth. Life is always changing, so I'm always hearing new music.