I always try to keep the circumstances in my life fresh. I like to change the physical environment I live in, change the people around me and try to experience things for the first time. I think that keeps one on their toes, creatively and spiritually.

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

One musician listens to another musician, and you get inspired and then you do your thing, but it's yours.

I honestly don't remember how I wrote or did the songs. Or the sessions. They all become very much a blur. And each album is like that. It may be that there are different locations, it may take longer, shorter, or whatever, but it's always something that just happened.

I feel like I'm only in the beginning of my career. I've only made five albums. It's not a lot.

I come in with this rock 'n' roll-oriented music, and it's not black enough . . . I've always had to deal with this black-white thing.

Nine out of ten groups that came out in '89 are gone. I'm still here.