I am not trying to change the world. I am just offering my gift that God gave me, and if somebody is moved by it, that's beautiful.

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

Love is the most powerful energy there is.

I feel like my best work is in front of me. I'm in the studio now, and I'm having an amazing time making this new album. It's something I can't help.

They think I'm being serious when actually I'm a very big clown. But you have to know me to see that. I'm constantly cracking up and cracking everybody else around me up.

I'm just as white as I am black, and I'm just as Russian Jew as I am West Indian.

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