People have often written about me, that I did this for this reason and that for that reason, and theyre usually 98 percent wrong.

Music is a work in progress. On a record, it gets frozen in time. And it's oddly unnatural.

The constant fear of a performer is to become what is reflected back at you.

The only reason to be with somebody is that they make you a better person and you make them a better person.

I grew up singing Mexican music, and that's based on indigenous Mexican rhythms. Mexican music also has an overlay of West African music, based on huapango drums, and it's kind of like a 6/8 time signature, but it really is a very syncopated 6/8. And that's how I attack vocals.

Music isn't just for professionals. We delegate all of our music and our dancing and our art to professionals. It's silly. We should be doing our own dancing and drawing.

American radio from the '30s through the '60s was just fabulous. There was such a diversity.